I have reformulated my original question in the form of 3 new small sh scripts to illustrate exactly what I am struggling with, w.r.t parent/child process behavior:
Consider a "parent" process:
I made the script executable with ">chmod "+x" parent" and executed it in a bash environment, via ">./parent".
I then do a "ps -alf | grep dludick" to see my list of running processes, I observe the following output:
Does anybody know why the sleep processes are not being killed when each of the children receives a "SIGINT" signal? How can I modify the above scripts to ensure this?
I don't follow what these are...
this is what my text says...
"When a process is started, a duplicate of that process is created. This new process is called the child and the process that created it is called the parent. The child process then replaces the copy for the code the parent... (1 Reply)
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I am trying to solve the given problem
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