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From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Subject: Re: handling SIGCHLD with multiple children
To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 21:15:16 +0200 (MET DST)
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Brandon Gillespie wrote:
> 
> Is there _ANY_ way of finding what child sent a SIGCHLD signal to the 
> parent process?

Call waitpid in the handler, it returns the pid of the child which caused
the signal.

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis                hm@kts.org                    Hamburg, Europe
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