On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:04:31PM +0200, Alan Zimmerman wrote:
> For an embedded task that must be kept running, I am considering an
> entry in /etc/inittab with the 'respawn' option set. Will this work?
> Does anyone know what sampling interval is used by init before it notices
> that the process has died?
Init does a wait(3) after spawning it's processes; it should notice
tantamount to immediately.
Cheers,
-- jra
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