in reply to Monitoring child processes
In addition to moritz's comment about waitpid:
SIGCHLD is handled differently to other signals on most UNIX's, in that it does not by default kill the process it signals.
On Linux, check man 7 signal for more information. It is possible that Solaris handles them differently, so it would be wise to look at the equivalent man pages there as well.
On Linux, check man 7 signal for more information. It is possible that Solaris handles them differently, so it would be wise to look at the equivalent man pages there as well.
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