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Re: Checking executability for asynchronous commands
From: |
Markus Elfring |
Subject: |
Re: Checking executability for asynchronous commands |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 07:23:22 +0100 |
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>> 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
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Markus Elfring <=
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