On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Josh Close wrote: > I'm doing several forks (up to 1000) and the child processes are > returning data via a pipe. > > If the parent catches an error and I have the program exit, will all > the children exit also? > > Or will they be waiting to pipe, in which case I should kill all the children? > > "I should kill all the children"..... when did programming become so violent? Hopefully, your children will notice that the other end closed the pipe and commit suicide instead ;-) Seriously, your child processes should check for connection resets anyway. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer -- gentoo-user at gentoo.org mailing list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list