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Hello,

I have a parent process which starts a child process.
This child process then kicks off some children of its own in the
background and then terminates.

I need the parent process to wait until all grandchildren
are dead but the wait() will only hold until the child terminates
and not the grandchildren.

Any Ideas?
Nigel Foley.

Joe

Maybe you should make the first child wait for its own children, then
make it terminate after all of the children have died. I have seen in
a book that a common way for a parent that is not interested in the
termination status of its children is to fork twice, i.e. the parent
forks, wait for its child to terminate, then continue processing of
its own. After the fork, the child forks again, then terminates, its
child, the grandchildren of the parent, being orphaned and inherited
by init.

Hope this helps.

Michel