> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Kellerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 12:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: sleep question
> 
> 
> Greetings,
>      I have a script that forks 5 children.  I print to 
> screen when each
> child gets forked.  Under certain conditions in the script a child
> should sleep.  This conditions occurs at different times for 
> each child.
> 
>      I think I am noticing that when the sleep is called in a child,
> every child and the parent sleep as well.
> 
>   Am I correct in this assumption?

No. After the fork, parent and child lead separate lives. Something else is
going on.

> The OS that the script is 
> running on
> is Solaris.

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