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- #wait
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Behaves like wait(2) on your system: it waits for a child process to terminate and returns the pid of the deceased process, or
-1if there are no child processes. The status is returned in$?and${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}. Note that a return value of-1could mean that child processes are being automatically reaped, as described in perlipc.If you use
waitin your handler for$SIG{CHLD}, it may accidentally wait for the child created byqxorsystem. See perlipc for details.Equivalent to
waitpid(-1, 0).Portability issues: "wait" in perlport.
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