From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2008-02-02T14:20:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Child processes live after parent process is killed


On Feb 1, 2008, at 11:22 PM, ara howard wrote:
> well - i wasn't really talking about reaping, but killing ;-)
>
> the only way i've found to *really* prevent a child from outliving  
> it's parent is what slave.rb does internally which connect a  
> lifeline from child to parent - that lifeline is a pipe.  the basic  
> concept is (with syntax error i'm sure)

I see.  That makes sense and avoids any sort of ugly polling mechanism.