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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: load average daemon for xenix redux
Message-ID: <17362@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 26 Nov 89 08:40:17 GMT
References: <17357@rpp386.cactus.org>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
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In article <17357@rpp386.cactus.org> root@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>this little program has been kicked around alt.sources a few
>times and i thought i'd take a whack at it.

and after a day of using it i realized i should have waited
until i'd used it longer before posting ...

>main(argc, argv)
>    char **argv;
>{
>    int i, n, n_run, n_disk;
>    int mypid = getpid();

this initialization of mypid needs to be moved after the fork()

>    signal (SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
>    if (fork ())
>	exit (0);
>
>    setpgrp ();

right here, like this

>    mypid = getpid ();

this gave me a semi-permanent load average of 1.0 with nothing
running.
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