[linux-help] Re: Help on CHILD PROCESS

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The answer depends on what you are asking about. If you are looking at
a shell prompt and enter a command that starts some program, the
process that you started is a child of your shell process. If you want
to start several child processes you can follow the command with a &,
which will start the child process but return control back to your
shell so you can start other processes.

If you are writing a program and you want to have it spawn a child,
then the fork function is probably what you want. Also look at the
wait functions.

Other than that, a program that you might be running may or may not
start child processes depending on how it is written. If a program is
not written to start a child process, then there really isn't anything
you can to to make it spawn a child process. There really isn't any
reason too.

A more detailed question might help us formulate a better answer.


On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:14:43AM -0700, Keltner, Gene wrote:
> You have helped me recently and I have another problem as a new Linux user.
> 
> How do you start a CHILD PROCESS of another process?
> 
> Gene Keltner
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