From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <098cc449668fabc366ee4852e9cfbaff@proxima.alt.za> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] waitpid() From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:03:16 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5d1952ca-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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