> -----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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]