On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:50:03 +0000, Michael Coleman wrote:

>  Probably because stdout is being buffered here.  The pid got written in
>  the buffer (but not yet actually printed), then the process was forked,
>  then the buffer got flushed (written out) by each child.
>  
>  One solution would be to make sure everything is flushed before you
>  fork.

Thanx, that's it. Is it possible/advisable to make stdout unbuffered?

Andreas
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