On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:09:26AM +0100, Michael Gerner Andreasen wrote: > > I haven't looked at the relevant snippets, so I'll just post what mine > > does. I'm sure it's similar. > > Please do so 8=) > > > I set the signal to SIG_DFL as soon as it's caught, fork a new process, > > then raise the signal again in the parent. > > Looks good to me, but what does DFL meane? cant say i have used that > one befoure?
Man signal, like what has been said here a couple of times. It's the default signal handler. > > The new process goes on to save everything and do a soft boot, the parent > > just dies, leaving a core file. > > If you do a fork, does every thing in memory stays the same, but you just > restart > from main? Man fork. It creates two identical processes (from the user point of view). All memory is duplicated, all filedescriptors are duplicated, all sockets are duplicated etc. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/
