How can a parent find out if one of its children is still alive

[Matt Crawford]

) DeadHead at cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
) > 	How can a parent find out if one of its children is still alive
) > or not without

Tom Armistead, wizard-wannabe, answers:
) i.e.:   if( kill( child_pid, 0 ) == -1 )
)             puts( "The child is dead" );

overlooking the possibility that the child exited many minutes ago and
the pid is now being used by some unrelated process.
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