Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Converting wait3() to System V Message-ID: <2463@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 18 Sep 89 18:23:02 GMT References: <10800032@bradley> <434@ohs.UUCP> Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 18 >> I hope you can give me some pointers. I am trying to port >> an application from a 4.3 BSD UNIX to System V. ... > >Try using waitpid(). You'll need to include , if you haven't >already. Try *finding* "waitpid()", or . They're not in the S5R3.0 or S5R3.1 source distributions from AT&T, and so aren't likely to be in your vendor's version of those systems unless said vendor added them.... They weren't in earlier S5 releases from AT&T, either. They may be in the S5 you have, and may even be in e.g. S5R3.2, but the original poster didn't indicate what version of S5 he had, so he may not have the same version you do. It's often unwise to assume that something that's in your UNIX is in all versions of UNIX, or even in all versions of UNIX in the same "family", unless you're fairly familiar with several members of said family and the history of said family....