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Re: how can we tell when a background process is finished?by vek (Prior) |
on Jun 20, 2004 at 20:00 UTC ( [id://368323]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Perhaps you could explain what you are trying to do. For example, if you just need to wait for a program to finish, why place it in the background to begin with? A simple system("program"); would suffice. That way you always know when the program has finished because system will return.
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