Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 15:47:13 MET From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whither wait_t? Message-ID: <9509261444.AA27256@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> In-Reply-To: <199509240739.IAA29753@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from "J Wunsch" at Sep 24, 95 8:39 am
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > Shouldn't it be defined in sys/wait.h? Not in 2.1! :-(
> >
> > What's our evil friend POSIX say?
> Since the man page claims:
> STANDARDS
> The wait() and waitpid() functions are defined by POSIX;
> ...most likely not. What is "wait_t"? Everything in the man page
> mentions an int.
> (Sorry, 1003.1 is apparently unavailable in electronic form.)
Taken from an HP-UX workstation:
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/wait.h>
pid_t wait(int *stat_loc);
pid_t waitpid(pid_t pid, int *stat_loc, int options);
pid_t wait3(int *stat_loc, int options, int *reserved);
. . . .
AUTHOR
wait(), waitpid(), and wait3() were developed by HP, AT&T, and the
University of California, Berkeley.
SEE ALSO
Exit conditions ($?) in sh(1), exec(2), exit(2), fork(2), pause(2),
ptrace(2), signal(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
wait(): AES, SVID2, XPG2, XPG3, XPG4, FIPS 151-2, POSIX.1
waitpid(): AES, XPG3, XPG4, FIPS 151-2, POSIX.1
Hewlett-Packard Company - 4 - HP-UX Release 9.0: August 1992
.......
We are talking about the thing HP calls stat_loc, aren't we?
/Alby
> --
> cheers, J"org
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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