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Re: Problems with fork()
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:10:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>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"'.
Or include the proper header "unistd.h".
cgf
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