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

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <42180 at brunix.UUCP>, tcl at cs.brown.edu (Tom Lawrence) writes:
> I'd like to point out that pid numbers aren't recycled for a while. It
> may take quite a long time on a machine which is relatively unused.

Be careful with this one -- the 3B15 running Sys V Rel 3 recycles PIDs
very quickly (certainly not in a circular manner) and it can surprise
you -- it surprised me.  Other machines might recycle soon too.

     Steve

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