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Re: Problems with fork()
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: wanderso <wanderso at bellsouth dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:10:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Problems with fork()
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, wanderso wrote:
> Hate to ask a stupid question, but I cannot get fork() to work in a c++
> program. I keep getting a link error saying - "undefined reference to
> fork()". Same problem goes for other low-level C calls like 'unlink',
> 'open', etc...
>
> The test stub I'm using is this:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> int fork();
>
> main( int argc, char **argv )
> {
> int i = fork();
> }
>
> NOTE: the same code works fine as a straight C program, it fails when I
> try and compile it as a .cpp file.
>
> I checked other posts and didn't see anything close; any help would be
> most appreciated.
>
> Ross Anderson.
Use 'extern "C"'.
Igor
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