Hi All, I am testing the fork feature in the Linux. In below code out of 3 child parent randomly check one child and wait for it to finish and moves to another. I was wondering is it possible to make parent to report the child which finish first and another child that finish second and the third? 

use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX ":sys_wait_h";

handler();

sub handler
        {
        my %process = (
                        A => 'sleep 10 && exit 0',
                        B => 'sleep 15 && exit 0',
                        C => 'sleep 25 && exit 1',
                        );

        my @child_pids;
        foreach my $process(keys %process)
                {
                my $pid = fork;
                        if($pid)
                                {
                                #Parent.
                                #
                                print "Launched $process | $pid\n";
                                push(@child_pids, {PID => $pid, PROCES
+S => $process{$process}});
                                }
                        elsif($pid == 0)
                                {
                                exec $process{$process};
                                die "Can't exec $process";
                                }
                        else
                                {
                                #Parent
                                #       Fork failed.
                                die "cant fork $!\n";
                                }
                }
                foreach my $href (@child_pids)
                        {
                                print "Waiting $href->{PID} | $href->{
+PROCESS}\n";
                                while (waitpid($href->{PID}, WNOHANG) 
+== 0)
                                        {
                                        sleep 1;
                                        }
                                print "Failed $href->{PROCESS}\n" unle
+ss($? == 0);
                                print "Done $href->{PID} | $href->{PRO
+CESS}\n";
                        }
        }

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In reply to fork report child finish by order child process finish. by tart

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