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Perl wait wantarray Keywords
The waitpid keyword
The function waitpid returns the PID of a particular child process when deceased, or -1, if there was not such a child process. Some systems indicate that there are still processes running with 0.
Syntax
waitpid PID, FLAGS
Perl wait wantarray Keywords