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From: tms@cup.portal.com (Alexis TMS Tatarsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Can process do an asynchronous wait?
Message-ID: <30343@cup.portal.com>
Date: 31 May 90 01:46:32 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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If a process forks and execs several child processes, is there any
way for the parent to detect when the child processes have exited 
or died without having to wait(2) on them.  I wrote a program where
the parent caught SIGCLD but I don't know which child it is which
died.