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Sorry. I meant the bsd waitpid and not the plan 9 waitpid.

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> 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().

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