Fork - How to kill PIDs ? 1

[Guest_imported]

I am new to C programming. I have two questions.

I am writing a program which is forked at some pont. Before the fork was included in the program, I was able to see the program running by issuing a "ps ax -l" in my linux system. Since I have included the fork in the program I am not able to list it running, only able to get the PID by using the "pidof ..." command. Why?

Also how can I kill the Forks after they finished, so only one PID is shown when "pidof programname" entered?


This is the Fork part:

switch (pid = fork()) {

case -1:

perror("Fork Failed"
break;

case 0:

/* program */

}

close(sock1);
_exit(0);

 

[gxdragon]

main()
{
int pid;
pid = fork();
if(pid == 0)
{
printf("child process id is %d\n",getpid());
exit(0); /* exit child */
}
else
{
printf("parent process id is%d\n",getpid());
exit(0); /* exit parent */
}
}

Not quite sure what you are asking but you can get your PIDs with getpid() and if you wish to terminate one of them you can use an exit.