problem with hal-0.2.97.cvs20040823-1.i386.rpm

[Steve G]

>Obviously this fails if the child dies, then the parent just sits there. 
>The child may die for a multitude of reasons including the system message 
>bus not being up.

You can still do this in a variey of ways. I usually use a signal pipe that's
written to by a sigchld handler and then do a select across all the pipes of
interest. One of the programs I've been looking at recently, udev or dbus, does
this, too. Xinetd is also another example of this technique.

-Steve Grubb


		
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