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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:52:24 +0100
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From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at
Subject: Re: Whither wait_t?
To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 15:52:26 MET
Cc: haclers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199509240527.WAA04774@ref.tfs.com>; from "Julian Elischer" at Sep 23, 95 10:27 pm
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]


> hmm looking at osf/1
> (the closet thing to posix I've ever seen......)

> #ifdef _POSIX_SOURCE

> /*
>  * If the user defines _BSD, they are obviously not looking for
>  * POSIX definitions with respect to wait, so give 'em the BSD
>  * interface.
>  *
>  */
> #ifndef _KERNEL
> #ifndef _BSD                /* POSIX definition of wait() */
> #ifdef _NO_PROTO
> extern pid_t wait();
> #else
> extern pid_t wait(int *);
> #endif /* _NO_PROTO */
> #endif /* _BSD */
> .....
> #endif /*_POSIX_SOURCE*/

> and further down

> /*
>  * Use of this union is deprecated
>  */
> union wait
> {

> but no definition of wait_t

> > 
> > Shouldn't it be defined in sys/wait.h?  Not in 2.1! :-(
> > 
> > What's our evil friend POSIX say?
> I don't think POSIX has ever heard of wait_t
> (BTW what IS it?. it's not in 2.0.5 either..)

I could imagine it being a union of an int and a couple of bitfields
(one for signal, one for return value, one for Mommy, one for Daddy ...)

Apparently, POSIX doesn't know about it.

/Alby
> > 
> > 					Jordan
> > 






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