How to test for forked processes

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Bill Storma (bills++at++p3.enzian.com)
Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:50:20 EST

Fellow Performer users:

Since Performer forks its processes when running in a multi-pipe,
multi-process environment, what is a good way to determine if the
process is the parent or the child ? According to the Performer
Programmers Guide, the forking is done within the pfConfig call.
Therefore any code processed before this call will be run by both the
parent and its children (which is what i want to avoid). I'm sure
others have had this problem; what are the best solutions ? I don't
believe I want to test using the fork() call, since it will create a
child process if called from the parent. Any better ideas ?

Thanks.
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