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Here is a good example:
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svc.html

Download the source and examine it.


>Hi All,
>Thank you very much for the feedback. Now, suppose I want to write a >daemon
>for Unix in C whose job is to monitor other daemons and restart dead
>daemons. The daemon may take the list of such daemons to monitor from a
>file. I want to know how can this be programmatically achieved.
>
>Thank you,
>Gowtham