"Beck01, Wolfgang" <BeckW@t-systems.com> writes:


[...]


> open Printf
> open Unix
>
> let ftst() =
>     let pid = fork()
>     in
>     if pid = 0 then
> 	printf "son\n"
>     else begin
> 	printf "father\n";
> 	let _= wait()
> 	in
> 	()
>     end
>     
> let aa =
>     printf "test\n"
>
> let main() =
> printf "main\n";
>     ftst()
> ;;

[...]

>
> However, on Linux (OCaml 3.06), it is
>
>   test
>   main
>   son
>   test    <-- why?
>   main    <-- why?
>   father

it is a problem of bufferisation of the output made by printf. If you
flush stdout before forking, there will be no problem.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat
vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat

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