Mandrake 8.1 newbie question

[mike neuliep]

Hello, I have a couple of Mandrake question.  I'm a Mandrake newbie so please
be patient with me if I sound -- DOH.

1) has anyone successfully done printing to a win2k server printer queue?
   I created the linux box a computer account in the domain.  smbpasswd
also seems to be missing from the latest smb2.2.3.mdk package?  Printing
works just fine if I print directly to the jetdirect the printer is attached
to.  Unfortunately I need to get it to print to the win2k printer queue.

2) games:  all the games except the missile-command clone seem to have trashed
icons and run trashed under X.  I have a matrox millenium G200 w/ 4meg of ram.
>From what I see the light cycle game looks really cool, but I am unable to play
it do to the trashed video.

The final goal of this task will be to built a linux workstation that can 
perform specific tasks for factory workers on the Andrew company production
floor.

Thanks in advance!

	Mike
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From: "Jeremy Fowler" <jfowler at westrope.com>
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Subject: C programming question
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This question is a bit off topic and I don't know if there are any C programmers
here, but I thought I would start here before I posted to a C newsgroup.

How do you clean up dynamic memory in a child process after calling execve? Or
should I not even worry about it since execve loads a new program into that
memory space anyway.

Say you have a command string your going to pass to execve. After I fork a new
process, the command string is parsed into an array of strings allocated from
dynamic memory. Since that process is then replaced with the process called by
execve, do I have to worry about that memory I allocated? Does the Kernel clean
that up for me when the process terminates, or do I have to clean that memory up
from the parent process?

Does anyone know how fork() handles dynamically assigned memory (malloc) that
existed _before_ the call to fork()? Does the new child process get a complete
copy of the memory allocated or just a copy of the address of the original
allocated memory?

Thanks, -Jeremy