fork

[samisammour]

how can i get the exit status of a forked child?
in C the wait() function takes a parameter which it puts the exit status of the child in it but in perl i dont know how.
could you help me please?

 

[travs69]

wait() and waitpid() can be passed a pseudo-process ID returned by fork(). These calls will properly wait for the termination of the pseudo-process and return its status.

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