on the head as usual, merlyn. I'm still pretty new to the forking code thing and I guess I just never had an instance where the child had an oppurtunity to go on after the parent. Either they all died on the same event or I was ^C-ing them during testing. I was already thinking I needed to write a clean up routine, now I know I have to - and, thanks to your post, I have an idea of how to write it well =) Thanks!

"A man's maturity -- consists in having found again the
seriousness one had as a child, at play."   --Nietzsche
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