On 3/23/19 5:15 PM, Ben Elliston wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 11:48:33AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > >> What's your goal here? If you want to associate an exit status with >> a process, you're going to have to save $! and wait for each process >> in turn. > > My goal is to run a small process pool where upon one process > completes, another one is started immediately. If I start (say) 10 > processes and then wait on the first, I may have chosen the longest > running process.
OK. This sounds like a candidate for a SIGCHLD trap. You're not interested
in a particular process's exit status, so you can keep a count of running
processes and start new ones out of a trap handler.
Chet
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