fork and vfork

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int global=5;

int main(void)
{
    pid_t pid;
    int var=1,i;
    printf("The difference between fork and vfork:\n");
    pid=vfork();
    switch(pid)
    {
    case 0:
    i=3;
    while(i-->0)
    {
    printf("Child process is running\n");
    global++;
    var++;
    }
    printf("Child End:global=%d,var=%d\n",global,var);
    break;
    case -1:
    perror("fork error:");
    exit(1);
    default:
    i=5;
    printf("%10d\n",var);
    while(i-->0)
    {
    printf("Parent process is running\n");
    global++;
    var++;
    }
    printf("Parent End:global=%d,var=%d\n",global,var);
    exit(0);
    }
}

The program running result as follows:

The difference between fork and vfork:
Child process is running
Child process is running
Child process is running
Child End:global=8,var=4
4359003
Parent process is running
Parent process is running
Parent process is running
Parent process is running
Parent process is running
Parent End:global=13,var=4359008


My question is: The value of 'var' is 4359003, why not 4 ?




[解决办法]
看看vfork 和fork的区别。。。。
[解决办法]
vfork最早起源于2.9BSD，它与fork的不同就在于它并不将父进程的地址空间完全复制到子进程中，因为子进程会立即调用exec.vfork出来的子进程是在父进程的空间中运行的，它的存在就是为了exec调用，所以它不需要复制这些东西。如果这时子进程修改了某个变量，这将影响到父进程.

vfork与fork的另一区别是：vfork保证子进程先运行，在它调用exec或exit后父进程才可能调度运行。如果在调用这两个函数之前子进程依赖于父进程的进一步动作，则会导致死锁。 而fork的父子进程运行顺序是不定的，它取决于内核的调度算法.

http://blog.csdn.net/buaalei/article/details/5348382
[解决办法]
改下面的就可以。

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
 
int global=5;
 
int main(void)
{
    pid_t pid;
    int var=1,i;
    printf("The difference between fork and vfork:\n");
    pid=vfork();
    switch(pid)
    {
    case 0:
    i=3;
    while(i-->0)
    {
    printf("Child process is running\n"); 
 
    global++;
    var++;
    }
    printf("Child End:global=%d,var=%d\n",global,var);
    break;

    case -1:
    perror("fork error:");
    exit(1);

    default:break;

    }
    i=5;
    printf("%10d\n",var);
    while(i-->0)
    {
    printf("Parent process is running\n");
    global++;
    var++;
    }
    printf("Parent End:global=%d,var=%d\n",global,var);
    exit(0);
}

The difference between fork and vfork:
Child process is running
Child process is running
Child process is running
Child End:global=8,var=4
4
Parent process is running
Parent process is running
Parent process is running
Parent process is running
Parent process is running
Parent End:global=13,var=9
[解决办法]
首先，运行在哪个环境？cygwin？linux？ 对vfork实现有差异

其次，如果在linux下
vfork的MAN手册中说其是未定义的.
The vfork() function has the same effect
as fork(), except that the behaviour is undefined if the process cre-
ated by vfork() either modifies any data other than a variable of type
pid_t used to store the return value from vfork(), or returns from the
function in which vfork() was called, or calls any other function
before successfully calling _exit() or one of the exec() family of
functions.

因为在退出前调用了printf函数，去掉printf，lz再试试呢