Greetings All!

I think I have the forking business down, along with the flocking (thanks to Abigail). My new question is this: so, in the invocation of the tool mentioned here, the user usually calls many different files, in the order that they are supposed to run in. So, waiting might be in order, but the question is how? I propose this:

1)Start a child for every server that the file has to go to
2)In the initial fork, keep track of the pid's of the children (put them in an array?)
3)Have the parent do a waitpid on each of the children pid's
4)Once all the children have returned, continue on with the next file (repeat the process)

It is the waitpid that I'm a bit shaky on. The camel wasn't much help. Any light you could shine on this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks,
thor

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