[SOLVED] c programmation ( wait() )

[khlitoshi]

hello,
im doing a program where a process creates 5 processes,
i need that the father process dont finishes till all the five processes finish.
how to do it?????????????
i found the function wait(); but it doen't work because it is only for one of the processes.

thanks to help me

[gerard4143]

try waitpid()

[digvijay.gahlot]

you get the pid of child process when you call fork. collect all pids and call waitpid for each process.

[khlitoshi]

thanks but i need a function to wait for all process , in my case yes i have just 5 processes , but imagine for a big number of processes

[digvijay.gahlot]

I don't know how memory intensive application you r going to make.
But can give dynamic memory allocation for an array of pid a chance.
something like
i=0;
while(pid[i])
{
waitpid(pid[i]);
i++;
}

[khlitoshi]

thanks .