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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there a system call to check the status of any processes?
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Date: 29 May 90 21:04:11 GMT
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 > Isn't there any more graceful way to do this? I looked the HP-UX manual and
 >it turned out they had something called waitpid(pid,stat_loc,opt) that can
 >be used to wait for one (out of many) child process.

Unfortunately, "this" is checking for the status of a process that's
*not* a child of the checker, so "waitpid()" won't help you a bit.