Why not; fork, set a variable, join, act on the variable, exit gracefully. I am sure you could get this to work with exiting in a fork but why? My feeling has always been if the picture doesn't look right and balanced the process probably is not right. Its like looking at sheet music; the great music looks good on the paper. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4252127#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...