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wait

Blocks until child process terminates and then cleans up all resources.

Function parameters

Parameters

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self:*ChildProcess

Type definitions in this namespace

Types

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StdIo
Behavior of the child process's standard input, output, and error
WindowsExtension
File name extensions supported natively by `CreateProcess()` on Windows.

First argument in argv is the executable.

Functions

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init
First argument in argv is the executable.
spawn
On success must call `kill` or `wait`.
kill
Forcibly terminates child process and then cleans up all resources.
waitForSpawn
On some targets, `spawn` may not report all spawn errors, such as `error.InvalidExe`.
wait
Blocks until child process terminates and then cleans up all resources.
collectOutput
Collect the output from the process's stdout and stderr.
run
Spawns a child process, waits for it, collecting stdout and stderr, and then returns.

Error sets in this namespace

Error Sets

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Source

Implementation

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pub fn wait(self: *ChildProcess) WaitError!Term {
    try self.waitForSpawn(); // report spawn errors
    if (self.term) |term| {
        self.cleanupStreams();
        return term;
    }
    switch (native_os) {
        .windows => try self.waitUnwrappedWindows(),
        else => self.waitUnwrappedPosix(),
    }
    self.id = undefined;
    return self.term.?;
}