[Asterisk-Users] Re: System called seems forked up

[Bill Michaelson]

>It is now indeed more discerning, but it has reported Fork failed.  But 
>the fork most certainly has not failed!  The shell command invoked has 
>run, and what's more, completed successfully, producing the expected files.

> Does anyone have any ideas?

andrewg at felinemenace.org suggested:

Can you check the errno? strerror(errno); should give you a string of why  it
failed. (Just be careful not to use other stuff which touches errno after the
fork()


Of course - very good suggestion (embarrassed I didn't think of it)... 
anyway...

it returns 10, which perror tells me is "No child processes".

Sooo, I suppose the spawned process is somehow disassociated from the 
process group prior to execution of the wait() embedded within the 
system()?  Duuh... I'm still stumped, but I guess we are on to something?

On the other hand, if a fork does really fail, one might expect errno to 
be 10 in that case too.

I've half a mind to break it out into a fork/exec/wait for myself, but, 
uh, ugh.  I guess I'm lazy.  Please, briliant insights, anybody?

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