RE: using spawn functions to avoid fork() errors -- FIXED

On 2/6/2014 8:50 AM, Steven Bardwell wrote: Larry - thanks for the link to the source for the spawn() APIs. It works perfectly on my 32-bit install (where, as it happens, the fork() issue never shows up either). However, on my 64-bit install, the spawnv() call is returning with an

RE: using spawn functions to avoid fork() errors -- FIXED

On 2/6/2014 8:50 AM, Steven Bardwell wrote: Larry - thanks for the link to the source for the spawn() APIs. It works perfectly on my 32-bit install (where, as it happens, the fork() issue never shows up either). However, on my 64-bit install, the spawnv() call is returning with an

Re: using spawn functions to avoid fork() errors -- FIXED

Greetings, Steven Bardwell! I found the problem that was causing the failure of child creation logic on the 64-bit install but not on the 32-bit version: in an effort to make the output from 'ps' more useful, my application was over-writing the contents of argv[1] in the main process. This