Can process do an asynchronous wait?

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <30343 at cup.portal.com> tms at cup.portal.com (Alexis TMS Tatarsky) writes:
>If a process forks and execs several child processes, is there any
>way for the parent to detect when the child processes have exited 
>or died without having to wait(2) on them.  I wrote a program where
>the parent caught SIGCLD but I don't know which child it is which
>died. 

The signal handler for the SIGCLD should do a wait() which will provide
the process id and exit status of the child. The fact that you got 
a SIGCLD tells you that the wait will not block, so you don't have
to worry about getting stuck in there.


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