On Tuesday 21 January 2003 10:35 am, Philip Hazel wrote:
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|| That should ensure that the child process doesn't "vanish" until the
|| parent process waits for it. However, it seems that in your case, the
|| vanishing still occurs. I do not know what could be causing this. (On
|| Linux, it might happen if the parent is being straced - you weren't
|| doing anything equivalent, were you?)
No. But I upgreaded another machine (another FreeBSD 4.6) with exim 4.12
and I don't see any vanishing children. It seems to me it's an OS
feature.