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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-01-12 15:25:38 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-01-12 15:25:38 +0000
commit859a7fe9021cc9862b5612f79ac6d30daccbba7a (patch)
tree3a00cc760ebb7866cb870aaab2b90c71ce30cf55 /lib/libc/sys
parent4d3833f5b8ffd7244b58e51867ebf26a8e1146ed (diff)
document WAIT_ANY and WAIT_MYPGRP;
help and ok miod@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/wait.216
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2
index a305730ca34..02e01de7722 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: wait.2,v 1.17 2003/08/03 23:30:55 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: wait.2,v 1.18 2004/01/12 15:25:37 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: wait.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:39:37 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993, 1994
@@ -78,12 +78,22 @@ The other wait functions are implemented using
The
.Fa wpid
parameter specifies the set of child processes for which to wait.
+The following symbolic constants are currently defined in
+.Aq Pa sys/wait.h :
+.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
+#define WAIT_ANY (-1) /* any process */
+#define WAIT_MYPGRP 0 /* any process in my process group */
+.Ed
+.Pp
If
.Fa wpid
-is \-1, the call waits for any child process.
+is set to
+.Dv WAIT_ANY ,
+the call waits for any child process.
If
.Fa wpid
-is 0,
+is set to
+.Dv WAIT_MYPGRP ,
the call waits for any child process in the process group of the caller.
If
.Fa wpid