Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: problems with forkv (lattice) Message-ID:Date: 28 Nov 88 17:08:03 GMT References: , <167@fishpond.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: <167@fishpond.UUCP> fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes: > Forkv only works when the forked program is a C program. This restriction > did not make it into the manual, but is apparently in one of the README > files supplied with the compiler (or so I've been informed, read the README > files? never... :-). Actually, I can't get it to work with c programs either. I just tested it with a really small program that just does "exit(atoi(argv[1]))". The reason I started out TRYING to use forkv in the first place was so I could exit codes from the compiler passes, using a hacked up version of (your) cc, and it couldn't deal with any of them either (and I certainly assume they're written in c...). Just in case, I also searched the read.me & addendum.doc on the distribution disks, and they never even mention any of the fork calls. I also search the man entry again; no dice. So my question (why doesn't forkv work?) still stands... -Miles