On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Nizam Haider <nizamhaider786@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar <chambilkethakur <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Yash Jain <yash2learn <at> gmail.com> > wrote:Hello All,I have one dumb question, >> I wanted to write a process which monitors the exit status of the daemon, >> >> The Main process would fork a service, which would internally fork a child > and , exit from the process. If main process wants to query the status of > the daemon, how it can be achived. >> >> For ex : >> Process A would call a syslog service, which would internally fork a > child, daemon it and exit, so if process A wants to wait for the syslog > process, is it possible. >> >> >> waitpid() >> >> signal() > WIFEXITED > WEXITSTATUS doubt -- wait and waitpid will be for the parent process to wait for its child. but for a daemon the parent is init . so the exit status should be sent to init and not to his process. then how does he get the exit status sudip >> _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
