Subject: Re: disowning a process
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com>
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Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:07:33 -0400
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On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 13:55 -0500, Davy Durham wrote:
> Cool.. I looked at the daemon function and I might be able to use it..
> 
> However, I compiled your code... seems to work.. but where is the wait() 
> done on the middle parrent so that it isn't left defunct?

Sorry, forgot about that...
[...]

> >
> >/* parent code here */

waitpid(pid,&status,0);
	
/* and then you can look at WEXITSTATUS(status) to
   see if the second fork succeeded. */
if (WEXITSTATUS(status)) {
	/* failed */
} else {
	/* succeeded */
}

/* Here the second child and parent are now divorced */


-- Steve


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