rsync process life cycle

[Wayne Davison]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:34:58PM -0500, Steve Sether wrote:
> My question is, which process kills which process?  Does the receiver
> kill the generator, or vice versa?

The generator spawns the receiver and later sends it a signal when it is
time to exit (after the receiver has sent a message to the generator
that it's work is completed).  The receiver should be in its final
"waiting to die" loop at that point.

..wayne..