Re: A zvt fork question

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hassan Aurag <aurag@crm.umontreal.ca> writes:
> then I get two numbers, the exit number which is 0 for success and 
> before it "usually" (sometimes after it" the pid number.
> 

Grab your favorite UNIX book and read about fork(). You have two
processes after the fork; each does the "print pid".  The parent's pid
variable is the child's pid, the child's pid variable is 0.

Havoc