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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/wait.210
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
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