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Silly example, but might help.

#! perl -slw
use POSIX qw(:errno_h :sys_wait_h);

use constant {
  RET_SUCCESS => 1,
  RET_FAILURE => 0,
};

sub check_process_signal {
  my $sig = shift;
  if ( WIFEXITED($sig) ) {
    print q{process normal exit};
    return RET_SUCCESS;
  } elsif ( WIFSIGNALED($sig) ) {
    print q{process terminated because of signal};
    return RET_FAILURE;
  }  elsif ( WIFSTOPPED($sig) ) {
    print q{process is stopped};
    return RET_FAILURE;
  }
  return RET_SUCCESS;
}

my $pid = #run your command however....

waitpid( $pid, 0 );
if ( check_process_signal( $? ) ) {
  ## success...
} else {
  ## failure ...
}
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Coded on the fly sorry if there are any errors.

--Poet

In reply to Re^4: Background process by DeadPoet
in thread Background process by tart

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