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From: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: how process in background can kill itself after logout (BSD unix).
Summary: check for getppid()==1
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.043225.16772@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 04:32:25 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.012702.7265@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Jan29.234858.15536@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Organization: University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science
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One more:  check for getppid()==1.  You turn into a child of init
when your natural parent has left for good.   Doesn't work if your
parent is waiting on you, rather than dying on logout itself.  Of
course, then *it* could be checking for its parent turning into
init.
-- 
                                      Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez
                                      Department of Computer Science
                                      University of Rochester
                                      Rochester,  NY 14627