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Old 09-05-2008
Forking a new process without parent dependance
hi,

I want my program to fork a new process and then I want to kill the parent process. The parent program before dying will issue a SIGTERM to all its childs. Which eventually kills all Children.

I cant handle the SIGTERM at the child level.Smilie

What I was thinking of was the Parent process creates a Child process which is totally a new process and has nothing to do with the Parent process.

Any ideas ??
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Old 09-05-2008
This used to be a FAQ, but I can't quickly find the old "official" one which used to be posted to Usenet. Here's a nice summary I found in Google: Unix Daemon Server Programming

Actually here's the old one: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/faq/ but of course, it covers a whole lot of other topics too, so the condensed version above might be more suitable.
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Old 09-05-2008
Thankx Era, I wanted a second opinion, dont you think that a daemon would be an expensive proposition if I have to do a small thing like starting and restarting a service.

Is thier a light weight solution.




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Originally Posted by era
This used to be a FAQ, but I can't quickly find the old "official" one which used to be posted to Usenet. Here's a nice summary I found in Google: Unix Daemon Server Programming

Actually here's the old one: Unix Programming FAQ (v1.37) but of course, it covers a whole lot of other topics too, so the condensed version above might be more suitable.
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Old 09-05-2008
Thankx Era
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