-=> Quoting Peter Fitzsimmons to Phil Crown <=-

 PC> My app starts up to 3 other apps using DosStartSession().
 PC> Should I use a different termination queue for each or one queue
 PC> for all spawned apps?
 PC> I guess if I used only one queue, then I'd need a thread dedicated to
 PC> reading the queue.

 PF> I've never done it,  but I think you only need one queue.
 PF> Actually,  I'm 99% sure -- I have an app that only starts one program
 PF> directly,  but the many children that that program starts all end up
 PF> sending start/end messages to my term queue.  My program is a
 PF> debuggger;I don't think normal apps get a "start message" on their
 PF> termination queue. 
 PF> You only need a separate thread if your app has to go on and do other
 PF> stuff (which is probable).

This seems to be the case.  I had been doing this for each process;

  1.  start a thread
  2.  create a queue
  3.  run the program
  4.  wait for the termcode in the queue

The problem is that the second thread/process that is started receives
the first process's termination code in its queue, so the first thread
never knows the process it started has ended.

 PF> For what's it worth,  here's my code:

Thanks for the code.

Phil Crown
pcrown{at}airmail.net
http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/

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