On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 02:58 -0200, Rafael Barreto wrote: > Is there any form to create a child process in a bash-script? I > mean... I would like to have a script that use many background process > to do some paralell things. I know that I could use & after a code > block, but, in this way, when I kill the main script, their childs are > alive yet. They don't die with their parent. Any form?
You should ask for what you really want, not what you think you have to compromise with :) Do I understand you correctly - you _want_ the child processes to die? The child processes should indeed die, depending on how you kill the script. If you send it a sigkill, this should be propogated to the children. Unless they somehow detach themselves. sorry, don't know much about signals... If I read you wrong, and you _don't_ want the child processes to die, you could use nohup: `nohup command args &` or quite cool would be screen: `screen -dm command args` (no & required here). With screen, you can then manually connect to each created screen and see the output from each parallel task. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
