[PLUG] Mappings background pids to their exit status

[ss396@drexel.edu]

hello,

I am writing a korn shell script where, I am spawning multiple instances of a process in the background and want to make sure that they exited properly before the script exits.

Presently I am following this logic:

1. Spawn the processes and store the pids in an array.
2. Do a wait on each pid in the array.

Though, this makes sure that all the processes are being exited, I would like to make sure that each of the process exited with status 0.

$? doesn't help me in finding the exit status of the background processes.

I am sure there is a better way to do this. Can someone please help !?!

Thanks,
Suchindra

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