| Re: SPAWN result [message #93213 is a reply to message #93207] |
Fri, 13 May 2016 03:05   |
Markus Schmassmann
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Registered: April 2016
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On 05/12/2016 04:15 PM, SHENYUE JIA wrote:
> On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 6:19:24 AM UTC-7, KH wrote:
>> I have a wget spawn command that runs every night and is terminated in the morning by another
>> program if it has not finished downloading. What I would like to know
is how can I tell if the
>> process completed on its own or was terminated. I've tried including
RESULT and ERROR in the
>> call, but they both return empty strings.
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>> SPAWN, WGET_CMD, WGET_RESULT, WGET_ERROR
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>> Is there anyway to figure out if this job completed or was terminated? I could check the last
>> line of the log file, but I was hoping there was an easier way.
> Good question. And this is a major shortcoming of SPAWN. I was always using SPAWN under Mac OS X
> and I found the only way to track if the session has finished is by
looking at the tasks and
> threads from the Activity Monitor of the system. If you are using
Windows, you may have to track
> it from the Task Manager of the system. SPAWN does not provide any
verbose output even if your own
> program is written in this way.
>
> Not sure if the following link from this group is somewhat helpful but you can give it a try.
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> CPU Process Manager Library / Parallel Processing
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> https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_m edium=email#!topic/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/8RTM6eBUhzY
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> Thanks to Nata, the composer of this library!
have you tried this?
SPAWN, WGET_CMD, WGET_RESULT, WGET_ERROR, EXIT_STATUS=variable
not sure it will do what you need, but if it should if I remember wget
correctly
Markus
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