From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: union wait Date: 21 Nov 1992 19:04:51 GMT
In article <DJM.92Nov21130000@frob.eng.umd.edu>, djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
|>
|> |> What is the linux-ism for a "union wait"? It would really be helpful
|> |> to know for porting some software.
|>
|> Include <sys/wait.h>, You are home free. If your software ueses "union wait"
|> directly, rather than wait macros, fix your software. That will make it
|> more portable.
|>
|> I think what he was asking was *how* to "fix your software" -- what's
|> the correspondence between the union wait elements and the POSIX wait
|> macros. Unfortunately I don't have time to produce an equivalence
|> table right now -- maybe someone else does?
Grab GNU libc 1.05 and check wait stuff there. But I believe one or
two macros are wrong. Check Linux <sys/wait.h> for them.
H.J.