Need help spawning a child

[W. Lee Duncan]

In article <1661 at apt.UUCP> brian at apt.UUCP (Brian Litzinger) writes
of needing to creating asynchronous children and not having his
process table filled up.

Try orphaning your children (sounds mean, doesn't it).  Just do
something like:


void create_an_orphaned_process()
{
	int	pid1, pid2;


	if ((pid1 = fork()) < 0)
		end_all_life("no need to live");

	if (pid1 == 0) {

		/* the child -- it'll fork and die */

		if (pid2 = fork()) < 0)
			end_all_thought_of_life("why me");

		if (pid2 == 0) {
			exec("some grandchild program");
			end_all_sentient_life("shouldn't get here");
		} else
			exit(0);	/* the child is no longer needed */
	}

	return;	/* the original process goes on its merry way */

} /* end function */

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