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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] waitpid()
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:03:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <098cc449668fabc366ee4852e9cfbaff@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ebd6caa5f1c0c39c75e9d9e8197bb4d4@plan9.escet.urjc.es>

> The plan9 waitpid is a convenience for the case when you look for
> a pid but don't care about others. Thus, I wouldn't vote for changing
> the native interface; I'd just change ape, but only if posix says so.
> Otherwise I'd fix the program using ape.

I hope I'm not reading it wrong: P9 waitpid(2) is a stripped down
version of wait(2) that returns only the "current" PID, no other
details.  It has nothing in common with Posix waitpid().

++L



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-16  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-16  8:04 lucio
2004-04-16  8:54 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-04-16  9:03   ` lucio [this message]
2004-04-16 11:10     ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-04-16  9:07   ` lucio
2004-04-16  9:12     ` lucio
2004-04-16 11:36 ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-16 11:46   ` lucio
2004-04-16 12:01     ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-16 16:47       ` lucio
2004-04-16 17:10         ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-19  6:30           ` lucio

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