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From: cogswell@egrunix.UUCP (Dan Cogswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Parent/child processes
Message-ID: <197@egrunix.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 89 23:16:03 GMT
References: <186@egrunix.UUCP> <4261@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: cogswell@unix.secs.oakland.edu.UUCP (Dan Cogswell)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester, MI
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In article <4261@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>In article <186@egrunix.UUCP> cogswell@unix.secs.oakland.edu.UUCP (Dan Cogswell) writes:
>>Does anybody have a neat way of blocking a parent process from terminating
>>until all it's child processes have also terminated??  I certainly can't find 
>>anything in the Exec that will help me here.
>
>Sure, dude.  Use Peter da Silva's workbench launch code to launch your task's
>children as workbench tasks, then wait on the completion messages they send
>when they exit.

Excuse my ignorance, but could I don't know of the code you're speaking of.
Could you be more specific for us Workbench-haters :-) ??

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