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From: ilene@zeb.USWest.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: knowing when a child process has died
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Date: 19 Feb 91 20:41:05 GMT
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 I need to know how to determine when a particular child process has 
 died - at any given time in my program.  

 I started my child processes with DosExecPgm with the EXEC_ASYNCRESULT
 constant.  These processes are running as the parent process is
 running. AT given times in my program, I need to know if these
 child processes are still alive.  I tried using DosCwait with the 
 DCWW_NOWAIT constant and the particular child process id.  This doesn't
 seem to give me any useful info.  I looked in microsoft os2 programmers
 reference (pg 595) and it says that this willl retrieve the termination
 reference (pg. 595) and it says that this use of DosCwait retrieves the
 termination status from the most RECENT process to end.  This brings me

 back to the drawing board.  Anybody out there know how to find out
 about  the status of a particular child process at any given time in 
 the program.  Thanks .

 Ilene