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  2. From: stroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  4. Subject: Re: Mkdir in fork
  5. Message-ID: <7371197@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
  6. Date: 30 Jul 92 19:35:26 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul30.105754.7370@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk>
  8. Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
  9. Lines: 9
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  11. > I'm using HP 720 running HP-UX 8.07.  I tried to mkdir in a child
  12. > process.  It fails but returns with return code 0.  Following a sample
  13. > program (actually, it's extracted from a program in the public domain
  14. > version of NQS) :
  15.  
  16. Drifting a bit from the "fork/exec" problem, why doesn't this code just
  17. use the mkdir(2) system call?
  18.  
  19. Mike Stroyan, mike_stroyan@fc.hp.com
  20.