Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!ant
From: ant@mks.com (Anthony Howe)
Subject: Return codes & how to kill()
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 16:45:31 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.164531.22350@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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Sender: ant@mks.com (Anthony Howe)


I've been hunting high and low in the DevDocs for information on
how a parent process finds the return code of the child process.
Now I know Pexec() returns a value when it executes a program, but
I only use Pexec() to load, and I initiate the program through
separate means.  

Q: What I want to know is the return code passed back in D0, on the 
   stack, or in some global system location?  Is the return code
   available at the time of the call to the Terminate Handler?
   I'm trying to make mods to the Sozobon Debugger to handle printing 
   the return values before it exits.

Q: If I've used Pexec() to load a program and I'm handling the 
   execution of parts of that program.  How can I tell the system
   to terminate that child process.  Basically I want a kill() or
   a ptrace(PT_KILL_PID, child, 0, 0) so that I can add a restart
   command.

-ant
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