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From: dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need help spawning a child
Message-ID: <873@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 89 12:23:55 GMT
References: <1661@apt.UUCP>
Reply-To: dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello)
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In article <1661@apt.UUCP> brian@apt.UUCP (Brian Litzinger) writes:
>I have a daemon process that spawns child processes to do some
>sub-tasks.  The sub-tasks are asynchronise and the parent doesn't
>care how successful the children are.  Therefore the parent process
>never waits for the child.  This results in my process table filling
>up with <defunct> processes over time.  
>
>I simply want the child processes to exit and go away forever.  I
>do not want the parent to have to wait on it.
>
><>  Brian Litzinger @ APT Technology Inc., San Jose, CA
                                                                      
                                                                         
                                                                   
Simply use signal() to ingnore the death of a child.  In SVR3.2 this will
have the desired effect of letting the child die without creating
zombies.
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                                 
                                                                      
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