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From: davidst@microsoft.UUCP (David STECKLER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: knowing when a child process has died
Message-ID: <70848@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 91 17:57:34 GMT
References: <15458@uswat.UUCP> <1991Feb20.173755.14036@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Reply-To: davidst@microsoft.UUCP (David STECKLER)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1991Feb20.173755.14036@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> mikem@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Michael MacFaden) writes:
>In article <15458@uswat.UUCP> ilene@zeb.USWest.COM () writes:
>>
>> I need to know how to determine when a particular child process has 
>> died - at any given time in my program.  
>>
>> Ilene
>
>Have the program create a System Semaphore. If the parent wants to

	[...stuff deleted...]



The DosCWait api's sole purpose in life is to determine
whether a child process has terminated and optionally
wait until it is dead before returning.

	...Dave