and wait for the status to change to 'zombie'

ha ha ha.... that has got to be the funkiest hack i've ever seen....... didn't they teach you at wizard school to never, NEVER allow zombies even into existence?.... still laughing

To give you a clue: once you have the filehandle to the process, you can watch for the filehandle( or its filenum' ) to be closed , and then do a kill -9 on the $parent_pid ..... see Perl/Tk front-end to mplayer for other ideas

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku

In reply to Re^3: Dynamically altering Tk buttons by zentara
in thread Dynamically altering Tk buttons by Llew_Llaw_Gyffes

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