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How the parent process knows that all its child process has finished execution?

kishore036
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May 24, 2008, 4:55 AM

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How the parent process knows that all its child process has finished execution?	Can't Post

Hello,

The parent process fork's and creates 30-40 child process to process 30-40 files. The parent process has to wait until all child process have completed processing the files.
The proble is how long the parent process has to wait? or how will the parent process know that all child process has finished execution?

Thanks,

Kishore D

winfinit
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May 30, 2008, 11:31 AM

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Re: [kishore036] How the parent process knows that all its child process has finished execution? [In reply to]	Can't Post

look into SIGNALS and you can wait for a child with "waitpid" so you never have to go sleep at your parent if you are using waitpid, that will just sleep for you, and as soon as $SIG{CHLD} is triggered waitpid will get its return( if needed) and continue with rest of the actions.
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/waitpid.html

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