possible race condition?

[Alex Martelli]

ronald at robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
	...
:Part of the System V interface definition apparently guarantees the
:child to execute before the parent, I hear -- I'd like chapter and
:verse from someone who has a copy, if that's not too much trouble.
Does not look that way to me - SVID 2, p.86, under fork(ba_os), says
"both processes will run as system resources become available".

:So, in principle, yes, you're right, but the code works correctly
:on "real" System V.
It's possibly that way depending on how it is *implemented*, but it
does not seem to me that you get any guarantee from the interface
*specification*.
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