Hi! On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:05:29PM +0200, Liviu Daia wrote: >On 12 March 2008, Lars NoodC)n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[...] >> And, is there a generic way to prevent them? The cause is a perl CGI >> called by apache2
> Depending on what you're doing, make the parent wait(2) for the >processes or setsid(3). setsid(2) (yes, it's section 2 on OpenBSD) doesn't make the child lose the connection to the parent. See the source of daemon(3) for how to use setsid in connection with fork and exit (in fact _exit) to make a process "disconnect" from its parent and its controlling terminal etc. Kind regards, Hannah.