Getting exit status of child process without wait()?

Asked Jan 10 '20 at 08:12

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Is there a way to get the exit status of a child process created by fork() system call without the parent process pausing/waiting for its execution?

Specifically I need to print out the status of the exited process after it's done, but with the parent process continuing to do its thing in the meantime.

Still a beginner here; so as far as I know, you can't do that without using wait() and then testing it with the macros.

edited Jan 10 '20 at 09:01

Toby Speight

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asked Jan 10 '20 at 08:12

Arcturus

See duplicate: what you want is to use the parameter `WNOHANG` with `waitpid` function. – Mathieu Jan 10 '20 at 08:35
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`SIGCHLD` might help you. But you still need some `wait` for getting the exit status. – dragosht Jan 10 '20 at 08:42

Getting exit status of child process without wait()?

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