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in thread Waitpid Woes

Duh.

Doesn't solve my real problem, but solves my test problem, thanks.

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Re5: Waitpid Woes
by bluto (Curate) on Dec 17, 2003 at 19:49 UTC
    Not sure this helps, but the only time I've seen waitpid return -1 (aka 255) when it should have returned something useful was when I was mixing it with perl's builtin backticks/system()/rx() which reap children themselves (i.e. one starts reaping children it's not responsible for).
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      return from waitpid, or the value in $? not backticking... and I am getting back the pids I expect, so I doubt they are being reaped somewhere else...

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