Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Parent/child processes Message-ID: <4261@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 3 Oct 89 03:46:42 GMT References: <186@egrunix.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 12 In article <186@egrunix.UUCP> cogswell@unix.secs.oakland.edu.UUCP (Dan Cogswell) writes: >Does anybody have a neat way of blocking a parent process from terminating >until all it's child processes have also terminated?? I certainly can't find >anything in the Exec that will help me here. Sure, dude. Use Peter da Silva's workbench launch code to launch your task's children as workbench tasks, then wait on the completion messages they send when they exit. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that -- flags do not wave in a vacuum." -- Arthur C. Clarke -- Usenet access: (713) 438-5018