On Aug 31, 2015, at 9:50 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> wrote: > > Normally, when a parent exits, all child processes are killed.
This is not true. > This is not specific to terminal/tty sessions. Yes, it is. Try the following program. The parent will print the child's PID and exit (by falling out of main()). Then do a "ps xww -p <the child PID>". You'll see the child is still running. You can kill it when satisfied. Nothing special was done to detach the child from the parent and nothing need be done. Regards, Ken #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { int child = fork(); if (child == -1) { perror("fork"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } else if (child == 0) { // in child printf("sleeping...\n"); while (1) sleep(1); } else { // in parent printf("child %d\n", child); } return 0; } _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com