I'm want to create a lot of child processes using the fork > exec procedure. Many processes are ending very fast (in less than two minutes, some even earlier).
My first problem is, I put the spawn process into the background with
./spawnbot > logging.txt
[CTRL+Z]
bg 1
disown
So far so good. Now I don't see any of the spawnbot's messages anymore and they go straight into the logging.txt. However, whenever a new child is created I see all the info about that child in my console again.. I now wanted to start each child with it's own pipe - is there a better way to not have children post their output messages all over the console? Should I just redirect it to /dev/null or is this done with some flag in C?
Secondly, all the children don't really get killed. I have a lot of processes in my ps -ef. What can I do about that? How do I d