Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:35:02 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Masahiro Ariga <mariga@cd.mbn.or.jp> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is my BSD wrong installed? Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.96.990209153222.28451B-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <000601be52c8$2b4f32a0$064ca8c0@gateway>
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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Masahiro Ariga wrote:
[fork code removed]
> And,Book says it's output should be,
> % sample
> I am son!
> I am father!
> % ■ ----■ is cursor mark.
>
If the book says that, the book is wrong. It is *possible* that the
output will look like that but that cannot be guaranteed 'cos you have
no idea whether the parent or the child process will grab the output
device first.
> Here,two questions arise,
> (1) why my output is father's line and son's line exchanged ?
see above.
> (2)On second output,why % mark appears first,and why not returns to normal
> prompt.
The shell completed before the child process did.
Jonathan Chen
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