Re: wait4/waitpid/waitid oddness

[Joshua Hudson]

On 4/5/06, Albert Cahalan <acahalan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The kernel prohibits:
>
> 1. WNOHANG on waitpid/wait4
> 2. __WALL on waitid
>
> Why? I need both at once.

Why don't you try removing the checks and see if anything breaks. My instinct
says that waitid is less likely to break.

I'm the guy who removed the check in link() about source is a directory, found
out what broke, and am working on a patch to fix all the resulting breakage.
Your task is apt to be a lot simpler.
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