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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
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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;

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    Good Luck!,
    mslattery

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