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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: bug in pclose(3)
Message-ID: <9313@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Jan 89 04:49:31 GMT
References: <261@ecijmm.UUCP> <14020053@hpisod2.HP.COM> <803@auspex.UUCP> <633@mks.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <633@mks.UUCP> egisin@mks.UUCP (Eric Gisin) writes:
>Declare waitpid as
>	pid_t waitpid (pid_t pid, int *statp, int options, ...);

I don't have IEEE Std 1003.1 at hand at the moment,
but I'm fairly sure this declaration is incompatible with
the one in the Standard.  If you want a different interface,
use a new name.  Don't people EVER learn from experience?