Can I get notified of a child process terminating?

senor_fjord has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a program that forks and runs another executable. In the meanwhile, the main program runs some diagnostics, and should terminate when the child does. How can I do this?

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Re: Can I get notified of a child process terminating? by archon (Monk) on Mar 21, 2001 at 05:36 UTC
Trap SIGCHLD.	[reply]
Re: Can I get notified of a child process terminating? by mslattery (Initiate) on Apr 19, 2002 at 18:40 UTC
And of course the way you would do this is by... `sub catch { my $signal_name = shift ; die "Caught CHLD" ; # or whatever you wish to do! } $SIG{CHLD} = \&catch;` [download] See http://perldoc.perl.org/ and search on PERLIPC Good Luck!, mslattery	[reply] [d/l]