> Dick,
>
> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> > On a system at home I had a consitant problem trying to set the
> > terminal speed after a fork(). It was traced to the fact that
> > a termios structure, set by the parent, was being corrupted during
> > the fork().
> >
> > I have written a test program that shows this problem without using
> > any termios stuff, just malloc()ed memory. The problem does not
> > occur with a machine here at work (same CPUs, same CPU board), but
> > 128Mb of memory. Both are dual pentium 400MHz SMP machines.
> >
>
> I just ran your program on my SMP PPro 150 with both 32mb and 128mb.
> Runs fine in both cases.
>
> -Tom
Yes, it's very strange. It runs on the 3 SMP machines I have here at
work. I think it's not the buffers that are getting corrupted, but
the pointers (on the stack). I will print their addresses when the
problem occurs, when I get home from work.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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