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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:13:41 am | by StuartYeates | |
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In the software context; processes spawned by other processes.
If a parent process goes away, various things happen such as
-* Children get sent a [SIGHUP]
+* Children get sent a [SIGHUP], most processing die when receiving a [SIGHUP]. This is what happens when you close a [Terminal] and the processes started from it are killed.
* Children that ignore [SIGHUP] get reparented to init
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+If a child process goes away, the parent gets a [SIGCHLD]
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+The context for which this page was required refers to 'sprogs', or 'little people'. See also BadgeWearers
