>> Would you care if waiting on such identifications for background processes >> will occasionally be forgotten? >> >> How many efforts would you invest to add potentially missing wait function >> calls? > > It's axiomatic: if you want to make a decision based on the exit status of > any asynchronous process, you need to use `wait' to obtain the status of > that process. > > I don't think "I don't want to do it that way" is a good reason to provide > a different method.
I got another programming concern: Process identifications are a system resource. The exit status is preserved until this information will eventually be used for corresponding data processing. How many processes can a selected system configuration handle? Regards, Markus
