Thread: forking processes

i'm not too familiar with processes or what you need or even what's wrong - but from the way you named your variables (childPID) it seems that you might need == instead of =

if(childPID == fork())

i didn't realize the if-else did the same thing (i wasn't really looking at your code)

save yourself a few bytes

Code:

do{
                 cin.getline(message.greeting,50,'\n');
                 cout << "input: " << message.greeting << endl;
                 if(childPID = fork())
                      counter++;
                     
                 cout << "pid " << getppid() << "outputs:" << message.greeting << endl;
 
              }
             }while(strcmp(message.greeting,"terminate")!=0);

what do you mean "the first input line is rearranged"?
post the console output.