| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2000 Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
| * All Rights Reserved. |
| * |
| * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
| * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as |
| * published by the Free Software Foundation. |
| * |
| * This program is distributed in the hope that it would be useful, |
| * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| * GNU General Public License for more details. |
| * |
| * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| * along with this program; if not, write the Free Software Foundation, |
| * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA |
| */ |
| #ifndef _FORKER_H_ |
| #define _FORKER_H_ |
| |
| #define FORKER_MAX_PIDS 4098 |
| |
| extern int Forker_pids[FORKER_MAX_PIDS]; /* holds pids of forked processes */ |
| extern int Forker_npids; /* number of entries in Forker_pids */ |
| |
| /* |
| * This function will fork and the parent will exit zero and |
| * the child will return. This will orphan the returning process |
| * putting it in the background. |
| */ |
| int background( char * ); |
| |
| /* |
| * Forker will fork ncopies-1 copies of self. |
| * |
| * arg 1: Number of copies of the process to be running after return. |
| * This value minus one is the number of forks performed. |
| * arg 2: mode: 0 - all children are first generation descendents. |
| * 1 - each subsequent child is a descendent of another |
| * descendent, resulting in only one direct descendent of the |
| * parent and each other child is a child of another child in |
| * relation to the parent. |
| * arg 3: prefix: string to preceed any error messages. A value of NULL |
| * results in no error messages on failure. |
| * returns: returns to parent the number of children forked. |
| */ |
| int forker( int , int , char * ); |
| |
| #endif /* _FORKER_H_ */ |