From 203d5bb92583324efed4fe82e8272a831c780138 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:54:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Dpkg::IPC: Add wait_child option to fork_and_exec

* scripts/Dpkg/IPC.pm (fork_and_exec): If the wait_child
option is set to true, wait for the child to exit before
returning to the caller.
---
 scripts/Dpkg/IPC.pm | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/Dpkg/IPC.pm b/scripts/Dpkg/IPC.pm
index 9c621f92..7f8a46aa 100644
--- a/scripts/Dpkg/IPC.pm
+++ b/scripts/Dpkg/IPC.pm
@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ sub fork_and_exec {
     close($opts{"from_handle"}) if exists $opts{"from_handle"};
     close($opts{"to_handle"}) if exists $opts{"to_handle"};
 
+    if ($opts{"wait_child"}) {
+	wait_child($pid, cmdline => "@prog");
+	return 1;
+    }
+
     return $pid;
 }
 
-- 
2.39.5