On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:Thanks
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
Bill
