How to tell if a forked process is done?

[Klaus Alexander Seistrup]

Erik Max Francis wrote:

>> killing blindly is bad programming practice.
>
> But he's killing with a signal of 0.  From kill(2):
>
>        If sig is 0, then no signal is sent, but error checking is
>        still performed.
>
> It's perfectly reasonable behavior to kill a process with a 0 signal;
> it does no harm.

I overlooked that detail, thanks for correcting me.


  // Klaus

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