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From: luj@delta.ecn.purdue.edu (Jun Lu)
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Subject: Re: How to get Status of processes in C environment
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Date: 8 Sep 90 22:10:08 GMT
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In article <25467.26e7ac6a@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> jian@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>How does a program know the status of its spawned processes in C environment?
>In other words, what system calls can I use to get the status of spawned
>processes? Thanks in advance.
>
Try wait(2). Note the arg to the sys call is different on a BSD and SysV.
For more info, type "man 2 wait".

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