SPUG:Child Processes

[Jay Scherrer]

My stab,
 Do you use the: 1; # statement line for each child?
JayS  
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 06:29 am, North, Walter wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I'm sure there is a simple answer for this but
> for some reason, not excluding plain old stupidity,
> it seems to elude me.
>
> I have a script that releases a varying number of other scripts.
>
> I am trying to make the parent wait until all the children finish,
>  but other then the brute force method of looping thru watching the
> processes in the process list while looking for a key phrase I have
> not been able to make the parent wait for all the children to finish.
>
> It seems to me there must a better way of doing this.
>
> In Korn shell you can put in a wait statement after releasing the
> children and all is well, but perl does not seem to have a simple
> equivilent.
>
> I've tried assorted methods with no success so far.  The Perl
> books leave me baffled on this.
>
> Would some kind person please give me a hint or some such.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
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