[holidaymaker]

Hi all,Im beginner at Linux programming.I write C language .My problem is about waiting child process.I know 'wait' function waits the child.In the code, parent always waits but I dont want this.Parent must wait when 'as' is equal to zero.Parent must not wait when 'as' is greater than zero.The part of the code is below:

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if(*cmd[0]=='/'){

[b]if(as==0){  //I control as' value here.I want rocess to wait the child when as=0.
wait(NULL);   //When as int equal to zero ,the code wont run the if statement so wait(NULL) wont work
}[/b]         // But this wait(NULL) always runs.Im not sure how the wait function does


if (childpid == -1)  {
       perror("Failed to fork\n");
       return 1; }

 if (childpid == 0){


execl(cmd[0],cmd[1],cmd[2],cmd[3],cmd[4],cmd[5],cmd[6],cmd[7],cmd[8],cmd[9],cmd[10],cmd[11],cmd[12],cmd[13],cmd[14],cmd[15],cmd[16],cmd[17],cmd [18],cmd[19],cmd[20],cmd[21],cmd[22],cmd[23],cmd[24],cmd[25],cmd[26],cmd[27],cmd[28],cmd[29],cmd[30],NULL);

perror("Child failed to execl\n");
  }


 if (childpid != wait(NULL)) {                  
       perror("Parent failed to wait due to signal or error\n");
       return 1;
   }
as=0;
   }
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[#define]

If add as == 0 to the if (wait), then the wait is only called when as is zero.

23	 if (as == 0 && childpid != wait(NULL))