Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:12:55 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Colin Campbell <sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Detecting when your parent process dies. Message-ID: <20000120151255.B866@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001200844140.18152-100000@guru.citec.qld.gov.au> References: <200001191814.TAA22396@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001200844140.18152-100000@guru.citec.qld.gov.au>
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:45:16AM +1000, Colin Campbell wrote: > > What about "polling" using getppid(). If the parent dies, the PPID > will change (to 1?), will it not? Yes, if the parent catches SIGCHLD, I think that this is the rule. But it's still polling... -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." [Mark Twain] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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