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From: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle iap user exits
Message-ID: <10915@datapg.MN.ORG>
Date: 4 Jul 89 17:53:46 GMT
References: <1197@pyrltd.UUCP> <20077@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon)
Followup-To: comp.databases
Organization: Data Progress, Minneapolis, MN
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In article <20077@cup.portal.com> Bron@cup.portal.com (George Bron Faison) writes:
>It appears that Sql*Forms (or IAP) doesn't want to terminate with the
>"child" process still active.  I am assuming that the user exit

I'm having similar problems with PRO*C (ORACLE's product, not "PRO-C") code.
ORACLE uses SIGCLD and SIGTERM for its own purposes.  I've had to
disconnect from ORACLE in order to use child processes and I've seen
ORACLE get stuck until all children terminated.  These certainly are
nuisances on UNIX where child processes are useful and in some cases
necessary.

The two manual pages which I found on signals contain inadequate
information and the code sample is illiterate (it certainly can't compile).
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