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Old 05-09-2009
Program to spawn multiple processes

I'm trying to make a program that will spawn multiple child processes then exit. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this since after I fork, the child process begins running the program again (never ending).

Code:
int main(void){
    for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++){
        fork();
    }
exit(0);
}

Could someone explain how I may be able to do this correctly? And yes, I do want them to be orphaned (on purpose).
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Old 05-10-2009
first understand what fork returns to parent and child, then everything will automatically come to you...fork
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