Re: Don't wait: waitpid. Why?

[Abigail-II]

Eh, if you wanted to wait until there are no more kids, you want a blocking call, inside a loop, wouldn't you?

I usually do 1 until -1 == wait;, but waitpid would work just as well.

Abigail

[merlyn]

No, I often want to wait for any currently dead kids, not all kids whether they are dead at the moment or not, like in the top loop of a main event handler.

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[Abigail-II]

Ah, I see. I thought you wanted to wait till all children had finished.

Abigail