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Subject: How can a child detect the death of its parent
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From: bergquis@nms.gdc.portal.com (Brett Bergquist)
Date: 6 Jun 91 14:14:23 GMT
Organization: General DataComm, Middlebury CT
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I have an application with forks a tightly coupled child process to handle
communications functions.  The child communicates to the parent through
a pipe.

I know how to detect the death of the child process using SIGCLD in the parent,
but how can I detect the death of the parent process in the child?

This application has the following environment:

	Sun IPC
	SunOS 4.1.1
	Standard SunOS C

Thanks in advance.

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