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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?
Message-ID: <20784:Jul1807:25:1690@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 90 07:25:16 GMT
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In article <2036@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> kill (-1, SIGTERM);	/* give each process a software termination signal */
> sleep (3);		/* and give it 3 seconds to clean up */

If the processes aren't malicious, 3 seconds probably isn't enough---
remember that the system is heavily loaded. If the processes are
malicious, sleep() renders your solution useless. At least split the
program into two, the first with a sleep(30) and the second with no
pause.

---Dan