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Perl Programming/Keywords/wait
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Perl vec waitpid Keywords
The wait keyword
The function wait behaves like wait(2) on UNIX-like systems, returning the PID of the child process deceased, or -1, if there was none. The status of the process can be found in $? and ${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}.
Syntax
wait
Perl values waitpid Keywords