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dns: I don't think this worked correctly before. Closing child_out and then continuing means that this DNS child would hang around but have no means of communicating to the parent. I added one of these, but the second has existed since the DNS forking was introduced way back in fb8fbdd2118703058de16589570503043bc588fd. Instead, let's take the safe route and just kill off the child in these circumstances.

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HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

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doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
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