> I have a small program (extracted from a big program) which reads and > prints input lines using a loop of getline() calls. The real input lines > are all expected to be 52 characters long (+1 for the newline => 53), > that's what my example data for the small program looks like. If there is > no fork() in the loop, it works fine. Inside the loop if I do a fork() of > a child which immediately exits (no exec) and waitpid() for it, then the > program loops forever repeating the beginning portion of stdin. > > I have no idea what package to report the problem against, though it > doesn't seem to be gcc as I have tried both gcc12 (which comes with debian) > and gcc13 (which I installed manually).
My crystal ball says the most likely culprits are (in order): - your code. - POSIX. - glibc. - the kernel. Stefan