The *nix documentation project is meant to provide online searchable documentation for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, HP-UX, Tru64 and other Unix like operating systems.
Currently hosting over 25000 manual pages,
over 200 Linux Howtos, over 100 FreeBSD tips and a friendly comunity forum where your questions will be answered.
|
Random man page:
waitid(2) -- wait for child process to change state
|
|
The waitid() function suspends the calling process until one of its children changes state. It records the current state of a child in the structure pointed to by infop. If a child process changed state prior to the call to waitid(), waitid() returns immediately. The idtype and id arguments are used to specify which children waitid() will wait for. If idtype is P_PID, waitid() will wait for the ch... |
|
