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jimm
on Aug 20, 2014
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fork() can fail
Will it quit? A failed fork() will return -1, which is non-zero thus true in a boolean context. The while(fork()) {...} will run.
comex
on Aug 20, 2014
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But it
will
stop when fork returns 0, i.e. in the child processes, making it non-exponential.
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