Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: bug in pclose(3)
Message-ID: <819@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 19:09:46 GMT
References: <261@ecijmm.UUCP> <14020053@hpisod2.HP.COM> <803@auspex.UUCP> <633@mks.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Declare waitpid as
>	pid_t waitpid (pid_t pid, int *statp, int options, ...);

It's already been defined (by POSIX), and probably not as a varargs
function.  Yeah, maybe it'll work on most of the machines you and I can
think of (just as calling "open" with 2 arguments will), but why take
chances?