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Re: inconsistent $? after &
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: inconsistent $? after & |
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Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:12:19 -0500 |
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On 12/14/13, 2:08 PM, dethrophes@web.de wrote:
> I thought the value was only 0 if the fork/spawn was succesful.
Sure, of course. (Posix does not document any other return value, btw.)
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