子进程出错并等待`C`

Question

In the below code, if there is a problem creating a child process or something happens to the child process what happens to wait(&status) ?

pid_t pid;
int status;
if(pid=fork()){
   printf("Parent Process\n");
   wait(&status);
} else... child process here

Answer 1

If there is a problem creating a child process, fork will return -1 , so this code will never wait .

If there's something happend to the child process, wait will return, and you can observe status .

Answer 2

If the child cannot be created, fork() will return with -1, you should look at errno after that. No error process is created here. Your code does not check this case.

If the child is created and dies, wait() will return the PID of the terminated process, the reason for the child's death is given in status. See the man page for wait on how to extract meaning from status.