SPUG: Creating a NON zombie daemon

[El JoPe Magnifico]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Thomas Holkenbrink wrote:
>> Either that or the PID itself since the execed process
>> will re-use the same number.
> 
> The PID changes from run time till the exec... if the proccess
> starts out as one PID then changes to another??? 

Note that if you do your exec() with a single arg, or any of the args
contain shell metacharacters, the command will be exec'ed using "/bin/sh
-c", which will run under the original PID, but then fork off the command
under a different PID.  In other words, do...
	exec("java", "myClass.class");
rather than...
	exec("java myClass.class");
Nasty gotcha to remember anytime you do exec() or system().  =)
  -jp


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