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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: bug in pclose(3)
Message-ID: <803@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 08:07:18 GMT
References: <261@ecijmm.UUCP> <14020053@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >The IEEE Standard 1003.1 (POSIX) requires conforming implementations to have
 >a new function called waitpid() that does effectively what the previous
 >respondant described as 4.4BSD's waitfor() or wait4() function.  I hope BSD
 >changes the name before it's too late.

Since "waitfor()"/"wait4()" does things that "waitpid()" doesn't
(namely, optionally fill in a "struct rusage"), I see no reason why the
people at Berkeley would want to rename "wait{4|for}" to "waitpid". 
They may want to provide "waitpid" as a procedure that calls
"wait{4|for}", but that's a different matter.