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VMS Help CRTL, wait4, Description *Conan The Librarian |
The wait4 function suspends the calling process until the request
is completed.
The process_id argument allows the calling process to gather
status from a specific set of child processes, according to the
following rules:
If the
process_
id is Then status is requested
Equal to -1 For any child process. In this respect, the
waitpid function is equivalent to the wait
function.
Greater than For a single child process and specifies the
0 process ID.
The wait4 function only returns the status of a child process
from this set.
The options argument to the wait4 function modifies the behavior
of the function. You can combine the flags for the options
argument by specifying their bitwise-inclusive OR. The flags
are:
WNOWAIT Specifies that the process whose status is
returned in status_location is kept in a waitable
state. You can wait for the process again with the
same results.
WNOHANG Prevents the suspension of the calling process.
If there are child processes that stopped or
terminated, one is chosen and the waitpid function
returns its process ID, as when you do not specify
the WNOHANG flag. If there are no terminated
processes (that is, if waitpid suspends the
calling process without the WNOHANG flag), 0 is
returned. Because you can never wait for process
0, there is no confusion arising from this return.
WUNTRACED Specifies that the call return additional
information when the child processes of the
current process stop because the child process
received a SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, SIGSTOP, or SIGTSTOP
signal.
If the wait4 function returns because the status of a child
process is available, the process ID of the child process is
returned. Information is stored in the location pointed to by
status_location, if this pointer is not null.
The value stored in the location pointed to by status_location is
0 only if the status is returned from a terminated child process
that did one of the following:
o Returned 0 from the main function.
o Passed 0 as the status argument to the _exit or exit function.
Regardless of the status_location value, you can define this
information using the macros defined in the <wait.h> header file,
which evaluate to integral expressions. In the following macro
descriptions, status_value is equal to the integer value pointed
to by status_location:
WIFEXITED(status_ Evaluates to a nonzero value if status was
value) returned for a child process that terminated
normally.
WEXITSTATUS(status_If the value of WIFEXITED(status_value) is
value) nonzero, this macro evaluates to the low-order
8 bits of the status argument that the child
process passed to the _exit or exit function,
or to the value the child process returned
from the main function.
WIFSIGNALED(status_Evaluates to a nonzero value if status was
value) returned for a child process that terminated
due to the receipt of a signal that was not
intercepted.
WTERMSIG(status_ If the value of WIFSIGNALED(status_value) is
value) nonzero, this macro evaluates to the number of
the signal that caused the termination of the
child process.
WIFSTOPPED(status_ Evaluates to a nonzero value if status was
value) returned for a child process that is currently
stopped.
WSTOPSIG(status_ If the value of WIFSTOPPED(status_value) is
value) nonzero, this macro evaluates to the number
of the signal that caused the child process to
stop.
WIFCONTINUED(status_valuates to a nonzero value if status
value) was returned for a child process that has
continued.
If the information stored at the location pointed to by status_
location was stored there by a call to wait4 that specified
the WUNTRACED flag, one of the following macros evaluates to a
nonzero value:
o WIFEXITED(*status_value)
o WIFSIGNALED(*status_value)
o WIFSTOPPED(*status_value)
o WIFCONTINUED(*status_value)
If the information stored in the location pointed to by status_
location resulted from a call to wait4 without the WUNTRACED flag
specified, one of the following macros evaluates to a nonzero
value:
o WIFEXITED(*status_value)
o WIFSIGNALED(*status_value)
The wait4 function is similar to the wait3 function. However,
the wait4 function waits for a specific child as indicated by
the process_id argument. The resource_usage argument points to a
location that contains resource usage information for the child
processes as defined in the <resource.h> header file.
See also exit and _exit.
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