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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[rs])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: killing daemons
Message-ID: <10096@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 18 Feb 88 15:28:01 GMT
References: <20917@bbn.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 18
Summary: hup

In article <20917@bbn.COM>, mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) writes:
> During execution it occasionally checks to see if the parent is
> still around, and commits suicide if it isn't:
> 
>     if (kill(ppid, 0))
> 	exit(0);

If the parent of this deamon is the shell, it should
receive the hangup signal upon the termination of the shell
through logging out.
This should make it unnessary to commit suicide at all, as
it's done for you.
Of course, you can always catch the signal and do some additional
processing.

	Chris Calabrese
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	ulysses!cjc