Avoiding <exiting> processes on Ultrix

Jamie Watson jw at pan.UUCP
Sat Apr 8 06:34:18 AEST 1989


I know this sounds trivial, but I have searched the Ultrix (and 4.3)
manuals everywhere I can think of, and I can't find the answer.

Is there any way under Ultrix (2.0 or later) to write a C program
such that any child processes created by that program will exit,
without hanging in an <exiting> status until the parent does a wait()
for the child?  Under SysV this is done with signal(SIGCLD, SIG_IGN);
I have tried that under Ultrix, to no avail.

jw



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