Re: New Child to Wait for First Child to Die

The `normal' approach to reap children is to use:

while (defined (my $rc = waitpid(-1, &WNOHANG))) {
    #some child has finished
}
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Check the perlfunc:waitpid man page for more.

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Re: Re: New Child to Wait for First Child to Die by spike_hodge (Novice) on Apr 24, 2003 at 09:16 UTC
while (defined (my $rc = waitpid(-1, &WNOHANG))) { #some child has finished } I don't understand how to use this to stop the main program launching another child untill the first child is dead. Thanks	[reply]