How can a child detect the death of its parent

[Richard Tobin]

In article <1991Jun10.150007.8188 at bmers145.bnr.ca> jasonc at bmerh653.bnr.ca (Jason Chen) writes:
>	Your child will get an EOF from its next read(2) from the
>pipe, after the parent die.

If you want to get a signal, you could have a third process reading from
a pipe connected to the parent.  When the parent exits, the third process
gets EOF, and can send a signal to the child.

-- Richard
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