> > > But how does this manager know when the parent has died? Does it
> > > periodically wake up and check if its ppid == 1? Yuk.
> >
> > nope, use waitpid(-1,&status,..). The status then tells you why the child
> > exited.
> ??? But waitpid will not wait for the *parent* process, so how can it
> use this to check for the existance of the parent?
i mean it waits for processes in the same process group as well. Note that
you are really going to reinvent LinuxThreads ... any reason why you have
to use clone() directly?
-- mingo