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by **Eric Wyle** » Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I have a parent process that is currently forking off 1
child process at a time. I have a signal handler set up to
know when that child process exits. This is working fine.

I will soon be changing the program so that several child
processes are running at once. If I do this, how will I
know which child process has exited when the signal handler
is invoked. I need to handle the exit of each child
seperately, so this is very important.

Thanks,
Eric

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by **Erik de Castro Lop** » Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:00:00

> I have a parent process that is currently forking off 1
> child process at a time. I have a signal handler set up to
> know when that child process exits. This is working fine.

> I will soon be changing the program so that several child
> processes are running at once. If I do this, how will I
> know which child process has exited when the signal handler
> is invoked. I need to handle the exit of each child
> seperately, so this is very important.

Something like:

pid_t childpid ;
int status ;

while ((childpid = waitpid (0, &status, WNOHANG)) > 0)
{
/* Know the child pid, so handle each one */
}

can be embedded inside the signal handler.

Erik
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OK, I think this is the last question (about processes again)

OK, I think this is the last question (about processes again)

OK, I think this is the last question (about processes again)