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Re^3: confusing fork/readline behaviourby anonymized user 468275 (Curate) |
on Aug 14, 2015 at 19:01 UTC ( [id://1138631]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Yes that's true. Although it is more common that the parent has more work to do, it is also a well-known way to create a daemon by having a main program fork and exit immediately, leaving the child running detached.
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