We have a program that periodically forks a child process to parse and evaluate some data. After the evaluation is done, the parent process moves the results to a history directory. Well, that is how it is supposed to work. But a programming bug was causing the child process to crash as soon as it started up. After much head-scratching, one of the programmers said, "I know what's wrong. The parent can't create the child because it's had a hist-directory!" --- eddie caplan internet: gauegc@fnma.com
(From the "Rest" of RHF)