Thanks Jeff, That clarifies it.
Regards Cornelis --memento mori On 3/14/06, Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Does that not mean that a parent will stay alive until all children have > >finished ? > > > > No,the parent should get exited when it finish its session,in spite of > childs are still running or not. > When the parent exit,the childs should be take-overed by system init > process,whose process ID is typically '1'. > > for example,when you execute: > > $ perl -e 'sleep 3 unless fork' > > under unix shell,then execute 'ps -elf' system command,you could see: > > F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME > TTY TIME CMD > 1 S coremail 13564 1 0 75 0 - 1393 schedu 21:44 > pts/0 00:00:00 perl -e sleep 3 unless fork > > The process's pid is 1 really.It has been take-overed by system init > process. > > Hope it helps. > > -- > Jeff Pang > NetEase AntiSpam Team > http://corp.netease.com >
