Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!dftsrv!hq!mitch From: mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: waitpid() ??? Message-ID: Date: 10 Aug 90 04:20:07 GMT Sender: mitch@hq.af.mil Organization: Air Force HQ, The Pentagon Lines: 25 Greetings! I was recently flipping through the source of ksh(1), humbly admiring the work of David Korn, when I came across a function called waitpid(). I quickly grep'ed through the code to see if I could find where this function was defined, since I was not aware of a system call by this name. Well, I found no definition for this call in the code or in the few SYSV programming manuals that I have. Does anyone have an idea exactly what this call does? Since it is in the middle of the job control routines, I'd assume it was similar to wait3() in the Bezerkely world, but the parameters seem to be out of whack, and all three of them are integers instead of 1 int, 1 union wait *, and a struct rusage *. A man-page would be fine, but I'd prefer not only a man page, but a *real* description of what this puppy does. Thanks! -- ..mitch mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) | The Pentagon, 1B1046 | (202) 695-0262 The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity, but not necessarily in that order.