Re^2: Finding if a child process has terminated

Note that I have to add a

$SIG{CHLD}='IGNORE';
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for this to work (with no other previous $SIG{CHLD})

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Re^3: Finding if a child process has terminated by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 28, 2005 at 16:40 UTC
Ah, you're correct. Until something waits on the process it'll still have an entry in the process table and hence be "alive" as far as sending signal 0 goes. Sending signal 0 is probably of more use in checking if an unrelated process (or at least non-descendent process) is alive. Update: And you can see this behavior with the code below. Read more... (939 Bytes)	[reply] [d/l]


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