wait

Synopsis

my $pid = wait();
print "Child $pid exited with status $?\n";

Description

Waits for any child process to terminate.

Suspends the current process until any child process terminates. Returns the PID of the deceased child, or -1 if there are no child processes. Sets $? to the wait status of the child (encoding exit code and signal information).

See also

waitpid, fork, $?