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From: Morten Grouleff <mg@mjolner.dk>
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Subject: Re: FORK FAILURE: Only newly created systems may be forked.
Date: 26 May 1999 15:37:28 -0000
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"Sascha Kimmel" <kimmel@tricos.com> writes:

> Dummy:@|System
> (#
> 	do
> 	cycle
> 	(#
> 		do
> 		'Concurrency!'->putLine;
> 		1->sleep;
> 	#);
> #);
> 
> [...]
> 
> do
> 
> Dummy[]->fork;
> [...]
> Dummy[]->kill;
> [...]
> Dummy[]->fork;
> 
> [...]
> 
> then I get the following error message:
> "FORK FAILURE: Only newly created systems may be forked."
> 
> So how is it possible to "re-fork" a process?

Create a new process, by changing dummy to be just a pattern, and
changing the fork to &|Dummy[]->fork



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