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;
}


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