bug in pclose(3)

Bob Lenk rml at hpfcdc.HP.COM
Thu Jan 5 11:05:19 AEST 1989


> The IEEE Standard 1003.1 (POSIX) requires conforming implementations to have
> a new function called waitpid() that does effectively what the previous
> respondant described as 4.4BSD's waitfor() or wait4() function.  I hope BSD
> changes the name before it's too late.

Functionally (not necessarily syntactically):

wait4 == the union of wait3 and waitpid
      == wait3 + pid
      == waitpid + rusage

I'm confidant that waitpid() will be a library using wait4 in 4.4BSD.

		Bob Lenk
		hplabs!hpfcla!rml
		rml%hpfcla at hplabs.hp.com



More information about the Comp.unix.wizards mailing list