On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > Unix entity is still hanging around (for you) unless you (the parent) > successfully fetched its status. So the important point here is that a > child process cannot just disappear (for whatever reasons!) and even be > replaced until the parent has really handled it (with waitpid).
Yes, of course you're right. This just occurred to me while I was upstairs getting ready for work so I came downstairs to sign on and correct myself, but you beat me to it. :) --Cliff
