Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 17:41:15 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, julian@ref.tfs.com Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whither wait_t? Message-ID: <199509240741.RAA21994@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>/*
> * Use of this union is deprecated
> */
>union wait
>{
>but no definition of wait_t
>>
>> Shouldn't it be defined in sys/wait.h? Not in 2.1! :-(
>>
>> What's our evil friend POSIX say?
>I don't think POSIX has ever heard of wait_t
>(BTW what IS it?. it's not in 2.0.5 either..)
It doesn't exist. Old BSD applications may want to call the wait*()
functions with a bogus `union wait *' arg instead of the Standard,
Portable, `int *' arg.. Linux supports these applications using gcc
extensions. BSD (4.4lite) doesn't support these applications.
Bruce
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