I understand processes, forking, execing, etc. but I am having difficulty with forking a child in an endless loop, i.e. parent is endless and forks inifinite children not utilizing waitpid or sleep. But I am not sure how this can be accomplished.
I manage to fork one child, it exec'd fine but then both parent and child died.
Good. The only reason one might want to fork an infinite (or very large, almost without limitations) number of processes is a denial of service attack.
My purpose is not denial-of-service. I want to understand process creation better and I do not as of yet understand the process of forking a child and having the parent continue to process data, then fork another child.
This is for a school project.
