Fork and \n - High Level Programming

xyz123456 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008

Hi,
I wrote a simple program for understanding the fork command. The code is as below

Code:

int main(void)
{
	fork(); printf("hi 1 \n");
	fork(); printf("hi 2 \n");
	fork(); printf("hi 3 \n");
}

I am getting a variation in the number of times the printf is called if i remove the \n from each of the printf statements

. Can anyone explain me why this is happening.

Thanks in Advance,

bye.

matrixmadhan · #2 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008

i see whats happening ..

put those 3 fork calls in a function and call that function from main ..
and after the function call add one printf("\n");

that would explain better

gautamdheeraj · #3 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

What sort of variation you are getting.
* sequence of print is changing OR
* Getting many printfs ? OR
* something else is there

- Dheeraj

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