Re: fork() Problem?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 5 May 1999 03:54:44 +0100 (BST)

> Hi,
> this problem maybe a gcc problem.

No its a programming error

> main() {
> int i=0, *status;

^^^^^^^
uninitialised pointer

> wait(status);

Then you pass it to wait.

Then quite predictibly things go boom

Try

int i=0, status

and

wait(&status)

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