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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How can a child detect the death of its parent
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Date: 12 Jun 91 19:55:33 GMT
References: <298@wimpy.nms.gdc.portal.com> <1991Jun10.150007.8188@bmers145.bnr.ca>
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In article <1991Jun10.150007.8188@bmers145.bnr.ca> jasonc@bmerh653.bnr.ca (Jason Chen) writes:
>	Your child will get an EOF from its next read(2) from the
>pipe, after the parent die.

If you want to get a signal, you could have a third process reading from
a pipe connected to the parent.  When the parent exits, the third process
gets EOF, and can send a signal to the child.

-- Richard
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