- NAME
- BABY - create new process from two parent processes
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- SYNOPSIS
- BABY [ -sex ] [ -name ]
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- DESCRIPTION
- BABY is initiated when one parent process polls another server process through a socket
connection (BSD) or through pipes in the System V implementation. BABY runs at a low
priority for approximately 40 weeks then terminates with heavy system load. Most systems
require constant monitoring when BABY reaches its final stages of execution.
- Older implementations of BABY required that the initiating process not be present at the
time of completion. In these versions the initiating process is awakened and notified of
the results upon completion. Modern versions allow both parent processes to be active
during the final stages of BABY.
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- OPTIONS
- -sex
option indicating type of process created.
-name
process identification to be attached to the new process.
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- RESULT
- Successful execution of the BABY(1) results in new process being created and named.
Parent processes then typically broadcast messages to all other processes informing them
of their new status in the system.
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- BUGS
- The SLEEP command may not work on either parent processes for some time afterward, as
new BABY processes constantly send interrupts which must be handled by one or more parent.
BABY processes upon being created may frequently dump in /tmp requiring /tmp to be cleaned
out frequently by one of the parent processes.
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- SEE ALSO
- sleep(1) dump(8) cry(3)
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