Can a parent process determine its child's status ?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <22 at ctbilbo.UUCP> ray at ctbilbo.UUCP (Ray Ward) writes:
-You have pointed out one of the areas that needs improvement for
-real time applications, among others.  How does one get complete
-status information on a process, running or not, etc., without
-awkward programming contortions?  There is no easy way.

Sure there is.  You can access that information through the /proc
filesystem.  If you don't have this, complain to your vendor.