> > Ah, no, that's a different thing. If the parent exits, the child will > also be killed I believe.
Not if it's stuck in some endless loop... If you want to spawn a process and have it live on independent of the > parent, you want to make the child process a "daemon", detatching > itself from the parent's environment. I don't recall how that's done > immediately, but those are the terms to search for. I'm curious how this can be done, does anyone know this? Almar
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