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| author | oshogbo <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-06-01 19:49:38 +0000 |
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| committer | oshogbo <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-06-01 19:49:38 +0000 |
| commit | 911fc77d0fd6812bd44d3cd82ed4274bd0ab6115 (patch) | |
| tree | 9fea5e351bfe5d7578879feb7ba546cb2ca18e64 /lib | |
| parent | ca40d6fbcb0eb738d074fb7f45127d0722832b12 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-911fc77d0fd6812bd44d3cd82ed4274bd0ab6115.zip FreeBSD-src-911fc77d0fd6812bd44d3cd82ed4274bd0ab6115.tar.gz | |
Document behavior of wait introduced in the r286698.
Suggested by: glebius
Reviewed by: wblock, bjk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6080
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/wait.2 | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 index 687bc18..38b7bb7 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)wait.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 3, 2013 +.Dd June 1, 2016 .Dt WAIT 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -596,6 +596,14 @@ and fields of .Fa infop must be checked against zero to determine if a process reported status. +.Pp +.Fn wait +called with -1 to wait for any child process will ignore a child that is +referenced by a process descriptor (see +.Xr pdfork 2 ) . +Specific processes can still be waited on by specifying the process ID +or descriptor (see +.Xr pdwait 4 ) . .Sh ERRORS The .Fn wait |
