Fork functionality question

[Unregistered]

OS: HPUX11

I am thinking of using fork in my program

Steps

1. Initialize variables - pointers etc
Allocate memory

2. fork

3. do processing

4. free the memory alloted


My question is whether fork will create a seperate set of memory locations for all the pointers variables etc... in each process? Because I allocate the memory only once in the parent process but I free the memory in all the parent and child processes.


Thank you

[Salem]

> My question is whether fork will create a seperate set of memory locations for all the pointers variables etc
That's what the manual says

> I free the memory in all the parent and child processes
Sounds good to me

[Unregistered]

Thanks Salem