On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:03:09AM -0800, Gowri Ramasubramanian wrote: > Hi All, [...] > Hope I have been clear. Thanks. If I understand, you want the prompt to be printed after the child has exited ? You should know that the shell waits only for the a.out processes (using a wait() function), not its child, so you should add a wait() call before your main program exits. Hope to be clear also :-) -- Julien Danjou · http://jdanjou.org <julien@jdanjou.org> · · 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6 8974 C95C A462 B51E C2FE E5CD · -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/