Hold on the child under parent

penantes has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow Monks,
I have a problem (actually I have severall :) but this is most important) in my script I have...
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daemonize();
open(LOG, "tail -f $LOGFILE|")    || die "cannot fork: $!";
while (<LOG>) { print "@_\n"; }
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I use a fork(), redirect the STDS*, do a setsid() in my function daemonize.
My problem is, when my ppid is killed (dies) his child i.e. the "tail -f" binds to pid 1 (kernel). I want that when the parent is killed both should die.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Hold on the child under parent by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Feb 18, 2005 at 14:55 UTC
This is standard UNIX behaviour. To avoid it you either have to send a kill signal to the whole process group, or in the parent, trap the kill signal, and in the handler, send a kill signal to the child. Dave.	[reply]
Re: Hold on the child under parent by penantes (Acolyte) on Feb 18, 2005 at 15:18 UTC
Dave thanks on the fast reply. I think I saw something like that in somebody elses code, if I understood allright my script (parent process) when receives a... lets say kill -9 he traps the signal and forwards it to every child he has? jbrugger, sorry about that. Regards, Nuno A	[reply]
Re: Hold on the child under parent by Crackers2 (Parson) on Feb 18, 2005 at 16:07 UTC
Isn't the `setsid()` supposed to explicitely _prevent_ the behaviour you want? One of the properties of a daemon is that it won't die when the shell that started it exits. So I believe that if you just remove your setsid() call your child will die when the parent does.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Hold on the child under parent by jbrugger (Parson) on Feb 18, 2005 at 14:56 UTC
hi penantes. Please use <code> tags when posting code here. `open(LOG, "tail -f $LOGFILE\|") \|\| die "cannot fork: $!"; while (<LOG>) { ...blah blah blah` [download] *update* Hi, penantes, no need to say sorry, it had to be told to me the first time as well (i don't read the manuals as well ;-) Thing however really irritates me at PM, is that some people here downvote legitime postings WITHOUT a reason! Be a real monk and leave a node to zero like this. No need to up or downvote it, as well as no need to downvote ANY node without giving the reason imho. If i downvote, i'd like to give a reason, so the op may learn why.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Hold on the child under parent by m-rau (Scribe) on Feb 18, 2005 at 19:26 UTC
After a couple of days I follow the rule: Upvote only. No down-votes. I like this!	[reply]