Article View: comp.unix.programmer
Article #355Re: How to get the return status of a finished process
From: Jonathan I. Kamens
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:34
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:34
16 lines
1410 bytes
1410 bytes
If you're writing a program that invokes other processes, then I hope
you know that you have to use wait() (or wait3() or wait4() or
whatever) to wait for those processes when they are done. Note that
the return from wait() includes the exit value of the process, as well
as whether it was killed, aborted, or whatever.
For more information about this, see the comp.unix.questions FAQ
postings, which discuss wait()ing for children that have finished
running.
--
Jonathan Kamens jik@MIT.Edu
MIT Information Systems/Athena Moderator, news.answers
(Send correspondence related to the news.answers newsgroup
{and ONLY correspondence related to the newsgroup}
to news-answers-request@MIT.Edu.)
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<JIK.92Apr10093446@pit-manager.mit.edu>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!jikReferences:
<1992Apr10.100743.18835@informatik.uni-bremen.de>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!jik From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: How to get the return status of a finished process Message-ID: <JIK.92Apr10093446@pit-manager.mit.edu> Date: 10 Apr 92 13:34:52 GMT Article-I.D.: pit-mana.JIK.92Apr10093446 References: <1992Apr10.100743.18835@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: aspect@sun1g.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE's message of 10 Apr 92 10:07:43 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: pit-manager.mit.edu