#: 21359 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    06-Feb-96  23:19:42
Sb: #Checking on dead parents
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: All

Is there any way a child process running in user mode can generate a signal if
its parent dies. Here is my situation:

        parent processes spans child,
        parent/child communicate though shared data module created by parent,
        parent/child sync via events (event created by parent).

If the parent dies a sudden death, the child not only hangs around forever, but
even if you kill the child, the data module and the event still hang around. It
would be nice if the child could be notified if the parent dies...then it could
delete the data module (if it still exists) and delete the event.

Any ideas on this appreciated!

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