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> "Edward G. Orton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>at 05/02/2001 07:37 PM
>> Can anyone confirm for me that it is (or isn't) possible to do a
>> nonblocking waitpid() on Activestate 5.6?
>Grant,
>If you pass waitpid the PID of the the child, it will not block. See
example
>below:
> do {
> print "Parent sleeping\n";
> sleep(1);
> print "Checking on Child $child.\n";
> $kid = waitpid($child, &WNOHANG);
> print "kid: $kid\n";
> } while (($kid == $child) || ($kid == 0));
Ahhh.. thanks Ed. I have a pool of pids I need to check on, I guess I'll
just have to do a nonblock waitpid() on each of them at a time.
Grant Hopwood.
Valero Energy Corp.
(210)370-2380
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