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[Q]when parent process keeps forking child but doesnot wait...

djhong@gmail.com

2007-04-24, 1:20 am

Hi Unix guru,

In my case, parent receives a request and forks itself and lets the
child perform a task.
But parent doesnot wait for child to complete and exit.
This kind of behavior is normal ,right?

But, when I ps , looks like it displays all those completed and
exited child processes-->which is bothering me. Do I need to worry
about it?