Child process are running for infinite time

[kapil1089thekin]

I have used fork() to memory share programming.
The child process are running for infinite time even I am unable to stop it by pressing ctrl+c on linux.
How can I stop it using ctr+c
or there are any other method?
Do I need to remember something when I am working with fork to tackle such irritating situations?

[dwks]

In the short term, you should be able to kill the processes by finding their process IDs (with "ps aux | grep program", for example) and then using "kill -KILL" to send a SIGKILL signal to the processes.

To solve the real problem you should make sure you don't have any deadlock conditions. Can you post some of your code, or the output of a run of the program, or anything else that gives more detail as to what the problem is?

[kapil1089thekin]

main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

	if(fork()==0)	{						

		if(fork()==0)	{
		
			while(*dED == 0 && time!=10)	{	
				}	
				sleep(1);
				time++;
			}
			system("");
		}
		else{			
			
			while(TRUE)	{		
	                                        }
	else	{
		while(TRUE)	{
			
			}
  			sleep(1);
  			time++;
		}
	}

}

[Salem]

You should keep the PID from the fork() call, if you intend infanticide.

pid_t p = fork();
if ( p == 0 ) {
  // do some stuff
} else {
  sleep(3);
  kill(p, SIGINT );
}