Also, don't forget to write the process ID's of the parent and the children to a file(s). This makes it easy to track down your processes and kill them accordingly.

Jeff

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
F--F--F--F--F--F--F--F--
(the triplet paradiddle)