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Re: [Help-bash] detecting fork error
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] detecting fork error |
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Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:44:51 -0400 |
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On 7/13/12 6:46 AM, John Kearney wrote:
> what is the best way to detect a fork error
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> is this the best way or is there something better?
> sleep 4 &
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
> echo "Fork Error $?"
> fi
The shell tries hard to return 126 in this case.
--
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU address@hidden http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/