NAME
fork, wait, waitpid - basic process management
SYNOPSIS
@load "fork" pid = fork() ret = waitpid(pid) ret = wait();
DESCRIPTION
The fork extension adds three functions, as follows.
fork() This function creates a new process. The return value is the
zero in the child and the process-id number of the child in the
parent, or -1 upon error. In the latter case, ERRNO indicates
the problem. In the child, PROCINFO["pid"] and PROCINFO["ppid"]
are updated to reflect the correct values.
waitpid()
This function takes a numeric argument, which is the process-id
to wait for. The return value is that of the waitpid(2) system
call.
wait() This function waits for the first child to die. The return
value is that of the wait(2) system call.
BUGS
There is no corresponding exec() function. The interfaces could be enhanced to provide more facilities, including pulling out the various bits of the return status.
EXAMPLE
@load "fork"
...
if ((pid = fork()) == 0)
print "hello from the child"
else
print "hello from the parent"
SEE ALSO
GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3am), fnmatch(3am), inplace(3am), ordchr(3am), readdir(3am), readfile(3am), revoutput(3am), rwarray(3am), time(3am). fork(2), wait(2), waitpid(2).
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.
COPYING PERMISSIONS
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