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From: aabenson@balance.cs.mtu.edu (Andrew A. Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Waiting on parents and reinstating HUP
Keywords: csh, parent, HUP
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.144516.23119@news.miami.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 14:45:16 GMT
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Does anybody know how to set things up so a process started from csh
with an & will die when the user logs out?  Is there something I need
to do with SIGHUP signal handling?  I've tried everything I can think
of.  My only other thought is that it just never ever gets the signal.

My other question is if a process can check the status of its parent --
to check to see if the parent still exists.  All the calls I've found
only allow a process to check and/or wait on its children (the wait(),
wait3(), wait4(), and waitpid() calls under SunOS 4.1).

Thanks,

Andrew.

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