Your parent process exits before the child, so you get the prompt back. Then the child prints the message/flushes buffers/exits so you get the message showing up after the prompt. Add a wait/waitpid call before the parent exits to make it wait for the child result. Florin -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of Gowri Ramasubramanian Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 6:40 AM To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: some trivial problem with fork Hi All, I know this is very trivial. Might be am missing something out. Have attached the code When I run the code I get to see "hello" on stdout and then get the prompt but am not able to see it. What i mean is say the prompt is prompt> prompt>./a.out prompt>hello I get a prompt and then see hello and I don't see the prompt after hello. Actually what I expect is prompt>./a.out helloprompt> But if I type "ls" or anything after hello it shows the output. So it means that the prompt is there. What I mean is prompt>./a.out prompt>helloecho hi hi prompt> Hope I have been clear. Thanks. Gowri. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
