>I should have designed Process.wait returns both information. >Do you (i.e. other guys) think `wait2' is a good name? I like it. Under Linux, variants of wait taken from BSD are named wait3 and wait4, so there is some precedent... /\ndy -- Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC. Innovative Object-Oriented Software Development web: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com email: andy / pragmaticprogrammer.com -- Our New Book: "The Pragmatic Programmer" Published by Addison-Wesley Oct 1999 (see www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ppbook) --