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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>
Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: unkillable process
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Ryan Thompson wrote:

> Generally, if it is the parent of another process, that process must
> exit first before the parent can die.

uh... I think you are wrong, unless I am misunderstanding you in some
really stupid way.

ben@magnesium:~/tmp$ cat t.c
#include <unistd.h>

int
main(void) {

        fork();
        sleep(60);

        return (0);
}
ben@magnesium:~/tmp$ cc -Wall t.c
ben@magnesium:~/tmp$ ./a.out &
[1] 32191
ben@magnesium:~/tmp$ ps j
USER   PID  PPID  PGID   SESS JOBC STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
ben  30161 30158 30161 16e6680    0 Is+   p0    0:00.41 -zsh (zsh)
ben  30169 30160 30169 1690240    0 Ss    p1    0:00.12 -zsh (zsh)
ben  32191 30169 32191 1690240    1 SN    p1    0:00.01 ./a.out
ben  32192 32191 32191 1690240    1 SN    p1    0:00.00 ./a.out
ben  32193 30169 32193 1690240    1 R+    p1    0:00.00 ps -j
ben@magnesium:~/tmp$ kill 32191
[1]  + terminated  ./a.out
ben@magnesium:~/tmp$ ps j      
USER   PID  PPID  PGID   SESS JOBC STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
ben  30161 30158 30161 16e6680    0 Is+   p0    0:00.41 -zsh (zsh)
ben  30169 30160 30169 1690240    0 Ss    p1    0:00.13 -zsh (zsh)
ben  32192     1 32191 1690240    0 SN    p1    0:00.00 ./a.out
ben  32194 30169 32194 1690240    1 R+    p1    0:00.00 ps -j

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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