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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: disowning a process
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:07:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117220853.6477.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42976D3A.5020200@davyandbeth.com>

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 13:55 -0500, Davy Durham wrote:
> Cool.. I looked at the daemon function and I might be able to use it..
> 
> However, I compiled your code... seems to work.. but where is the wait() 
> done on the middle parrent so that it isn't left defunct?

Sorry, forgot about that...
[...]

> >
> >/* parent code here */

waitpid(pid,&status,0);
	
/* and then you can look at WEXITSTATUS(status) to
   see if the second fork succeeded. */
if (WEXITSTATUS(status)) {
	/* failed */
} else {
	/* succeeded */
}

/* Here the second child and parent are now divorced */


-- Steve



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-27 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-27 17:30 disowning a process Davy Durham
2005-05-27 18:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-27 18:55   ` Davy Durham
2005-05-27 19:05     ` Davy Durham
2005-05-27 19:27       ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-27 19:07     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2005-05-27 20:57     ` Alan Cox
2005-05-27 23:34       ` Davy Durham
2005-05-28  1:38         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-28  1:48           ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-28 23:18             ` Davy Durham
2005-05-27 18:54 ` J. Scott Kasten
2005-05-27 19:38   ` Steven Rostedt
     [not found] <OFA0F07206.30BD7843-ON8525700E.00611011@teal.com>
2005-05-27 18:15 ` Davy Durham

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