10-11-2009
A couple of things come to mnd....
- I'd use something other than SIGALRM to signal the parent. Perhaps SIGCHLD or SIGUSR1
- Forking gives the parent the opportunity to do something useful if the kid hangs. For instance, if the I/O subsystem were to be unable to complete an i/o and fail to return an error on a Solaris (or any system using DMA for I/O) , the kid will be unkillable and hang. This is because you might remove the process memory, reallocate it to another process only to have the DMA device complete the physical i/o. It might be useful to tell someone about the i/o issue via a timeout mechanism.
- Is forking all that expensive in a Linux system? Most everything except for the LWP stuff will be created with either model. The forking model makes expansion of the code to handle multiple tasks saner..
sorry about the late reply...
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