Re: Is it safe to call getProcessExitCode more than once?

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 06:27:42AM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:

Glynn Clements writes:

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Both [waitForProcess and getProcessExitCode] will throw an exception if the process terminated on a signal.

So if I terminate a process manually, I'll have to wait for the ExitCode to avoid a zombie process, and waiting for the ExitCode invariably throws an exception.

It's just the way that Unix process management works. I guess you have to catch the exception to handle it well. This is part of the aspect that makes writing shells so complicated. Dave