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Old 12-09-2005
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Try creating a signal handler in the "second" child. Have it wait forever for a user defined signal like SIGUSR1 for example.

The idea is to prevent the process from doing anything until you have attached to it.