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Subject: Re: [9front] recent upas/runq change
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Quoth Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>:
> Doesn't forking without RFNOWAIT interfere with the job handling
> mechanism in rundir? The new call to waitpid can consume the
> waitmsg from an unrelated proc and return before the send in
> returnmail finishes.
> 
> I haven't run this new code, only read it. Am I missing something?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Anthony

I think you're right; I was the one that removed the RFNOWAIT
in the first place, in 49d7ca8d92e5667f3e5ece4c6acbc1064701e2f8
I'll revert for now.

It'd be really handy to have a `waitfor(pid)` function.