DCPM: fork oddness

[Alex Charrett]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:15, Steve Marvell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:03:30AM +0000, Alex Charrett wrote:
> 
> > I'm having an odd issue with fork maybe you guys can shed some light on.
> > I've got a constantly running process that forks itself when doing time
> > consuming tasks to make the front end script more responsive.  It's
> > doing it's job nicely and I've got an exit(0) to get the child to
> > terminate at the correct time. 
> > 
> > However, the exit is causing defunct processes to sit in the process
> > list until the parent exits (which I don't want it to do as the parent
> > isn't meant to exit).
> 
> The parent should wait() or waitpid() for the child after it
> dies. You'll know when it dies from the SIGCHLD in the parent, which
> you'll need to trap.

Ok, that seems to be working until I hit the point where I may have more
than one child at a time, how do I tell which is sending me the SIGCHLD?

Alex.