in reply to Managing the fork/execing and reaping of child processes

before it freezes:

Hm. I see no way out of your while loop (except the exit if fork fails), so how are you expecting the program to end?

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Re^2: Managing the fork/execing and reaping of child processes
by QM (Parson) on Jul 16, 2015 at 15:39 UTC
    My understanding of the OP is that it shouldn't exit.

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      Correct. I don't want it to end.
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