Thank you for you quick reply, your advice worked.
I understand what you mean about the children of the children (i.e. the sleep processes) not getting the signal. I tried the following:
Changed "child1" to:
and then "child2" to:
so that the INT signals gets propagated to the spawned "sleep" children of each. When I now send a SIGINT to the original parent script, I see that the sleep processes are killed active. I think this solves the problem.
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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Since I'm fairly new to the scene and don't have much experience in shell programming, I decided to check out the net for a useful script or two.
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I have gone through the search and looked at posting about idle users and killing processes. Here is my question I would like to kill an idle user ( which I can do) but how can I asure that all of his process is also killed whit out tracing his inital start PID. I have tried this on a... (4 Replies)
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I have a global function name func1() that I am sourcing in from script A. I call the function from script B. Is there a way to find out which script called func1() dynamically so that the func1() can report it in the event there are errors?
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I need to make an program that in a loop creates one parent and five children with fork(). The problem i'm trying to solve is how to delete the parent and child of the childīs process.
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Hi everyone
i am very new to linux , working on bash shell.
I am trying to solve the given problem
1. Create a process and then create children using fork
2. Check the Status of the application for successful running.
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does anyone know how to check in an 'if' statement if a particular directory is a child directory of a particular directory?
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
fork
FORK(2) System Calls Manual FORK(2)NAME
fork - create a new process
SYNOPSIS
pid = fork()
int pid;
DESCRIPTION
Fork causes creation of a new process. The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the calling process except for the following:
The child process has a unique process ID.
The child process has a different parent process ID (i.e., the process ID of the parent process).
The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors. These descriptors reference the same underlying objects, so that, for
instance, file pointers in file objects are shared between the child and the parent, so that an lseek(2) on a descriptor in the child
process can affect a subsequent read or write by the parent. This descriptor copying is also used by the shell to establish standard
input and output for newly created processes as well as to set up pipes.
The child processes resource utilizations are set to 0; see setrlimit(2).
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, fork returns a value of 0 to the child process and returns the process ID of the child process to the parent
process. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned to the parent process, no child process is created, and the global variable errno is set to
indicate the error.
ERRORS
Fork will fail and no child process will be created if one or more of the following are true:
[EAGAIN] The system-imposed limit on the total number of processes under execution would be exceeded. This limit is configuration-
dependent.
[EAGAIN] The system-imposed limit MAXUPRC (<sys/param.h>) on the total number of processes under execution by a single user would be
exceeded.
[ENOMEM] There is insufficient swap space for the new process.
SEE ALSO execve(2), wait(2)3rd Berkeley Distribution May 22, 1986 FORK(2)