what the kill() system call should do??

[BURNS,JIM]

in article <25784.2700d355 at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, jian at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu says:

>   switch( pid = fork()) {
>     case -1:
>       perror("for()");
>       exit(1);
>     case 0:
>       ppid = getpid();

Try getppid().

>       child_process(ppid);
>     
>      default:   
>        signal(SIGUSR1, catch_usr1);

Might want to add:

	 wait(0);
	 sleep(5);

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