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[Gvs]

Hi,

I'm just playing around with forking processes and was wondering how can you
keep a child alive as long as the parent is alive. To give an example here
is my code.

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for(i=0; i<2; i++) {

if((pid = fork()) == -1) //run the fork command
{
perror("fork");
}

else if (pid == 0)
{
if (i ==0) //using parent process
{
//start the timer function
time = 20;
timer(time);
}
else if () //using children processes
{
//start the timer function
timer = 10;
timer(time);
exit(1);
}

void timer(int time)
{
sleep(time);
}

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I want to keep the child alive even though his timer is smaller than the
parents. I need to check if the parent is still alive before killing the
child, if the parent is then allow the child to remain alive.

Regards,

Matt

[Artie Gold]

Gvs wrote:

Hi,

I'm just playing around with forking processes and was wondering how can you
keep a child alive as long as the parent is alive. To give an example here
is my code.

Sorry, but fork() is not part of standard C.

Try news:comp.unix. programmer.

HTH,
--ag

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