Re: Idea about childs...

2002-08-13 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Sudarshan Raghavan wrote: > > Case 2) Parent dies and child still alive > From the parent you can send a signal to the child > and handle it in the child. Something like > Parent process > kill ('USR1', $child_pid); > Child process > $SIG{USR1} = sub { die "Parent process is

Re: Idea about childs...

2002-08-13 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Angerstein wrote: > I have a child and a parent process. > Both should die if the other has ended. > perldoc perlipc Case 1) Child dies and parent still alive In this case the signal SIGCHLD is sent to the parent. You can set up a handler to SIGCHLD like this in your paren

Idea about childs...

2002-08-13 Thread Angerstein
I have a child and a parent process. Both should die if the other has ended. i tried with kill(0,$pib); while (kill(0,$pib)){ } in the parentprocess and with $parentpid = getppid(); while (kill(0,$parentpid)){ } in the child. I also tried: $parentpid = getppid(); wh