I'm writing a monitoring system (Yes, still... Finally got the go-ahead to do this) and my design calls for a central "Smart" Daemon that spawns and monitors the lesser Daemons that do the actual monitoring. My problem is that I'm not sure how to go about this.
>From what I understand, fork actually creates a duplicate (clone) of the current program and runs it. Based on the pid, you can determine if you're the parent or the child. I may be able to use this, but it won't allow me to spawn the seperate processes that need to run. System spawns the process but blocks and waits for a return? Great, but I need to spawn, get the pid, and monitor on my own and not via a system call... Exec spawns and runs this new program, forgetting the old one... In essence, the old one ceases to run ... (I think ... feel free to correct me) I can't see to figure out how to spawn a new process, return the pid, and be able to monitor this new process on my own ... Any ideas? Thanks, -- --------------------------- Jason H. Frisvold Senior ATM Engineer Penteledata Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] RedHat Certified - RHCE # 807302349405893 --------------------------- "Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the Tao of Programming." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
