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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Wait for an output pipe?
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Date: 27 Sep 90 19:50:32 GMT
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   X-Name: Stephen Schaefer

   OK, I could collect the process ID from pipe open, but then how do I
   wait for that process?

$pid = open(RDIST,"|rdist -f -");
... write stuff to RDIST ...
close RDIST;
# Wait until process $pid is done
until (wait == $pid) {}

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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