[Info-vax] Check if a process will auto-terminate

[Stephen Davies]

Hi,

Please could someone tell me if there is a simple way that a command file 
can determine if it running in a process that will terminate as soon as the 
command file exits.

eg, tell the difference between this:
$ spawn @CMD

and this:
$ spawn
$ @CMD

The reason is that I have updated a command file to spawn a subprocess then 
exit but some legacy calls to the command file already spawn the command 
file, resulting in the sub-sub-process terminating almost immediately 
because its parent terminates.

My current work-around is to use f$getjpi("", "LOGINTIM") and see if the 
process is less than a second old but I hope there's a better solution.

Thanks in advance,

Steve D.