What I want to do is following: one parent process is creating lisening server process. This parent is forking a child which is "log maintainer" - it logs all the activity of parent/child processes into file and maintains that file size. Log maintainer (child process) is active all the time. What I want to complish is when I kill parent I want child to die instantly as well. I do not want to kill 2 processes in order to shut the functionality. Now I did this by means of two techniques: 1. child periodically checks if parentpid exists. If there is no parent pid it exists ; or 2. When parent is killed with INT signal - there is a signal handler for upon receiving the INT - it will kill child and then parent. Those aproaches are with flaws: 1. I want child instantly killed when parent is killled and not to check periodicly! 2. What if parent is killed by other means than INT signal? -Dejan.

In reply to Re^2: Child process dies by Anonymous Monk
in thread Child process dies by dejans

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