sys._exit()

[David Bolen]

Donn Cave <donn at drizzle.com> writes:

> Well, note that the fork runs in a separate address space and can't
> modify the parent's state.

No, but system resources like file handles are just copied literally
into the client's address space (not 'dup'd).  So if the client were
to close a common handle, the parent's handle would then become
invalid.  (Thus the typical create pipe, fork, and then have
parent/child carefully close opposite ends of the pipe handles before
using the other set of handles).

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