WAITPID(3P)

💖 WAITPID(3P) 💖 — the POSIX Programmer's Manual, bestie edition

okay so this little cutie lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual (yes, the 3P one, the P is for POSIX, iykyk). Lowkey important heads-up before we even start:

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, bestie, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the details of Linux behavior. Orrrrr the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈 Not me finding that out the hard way.

✨ NAME ✨

waitpid — wait for a child process to stop or terminate 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <sys/wait.h>

pid_t waitpid(pid_t pid, int *stat_loc, int options);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Refer to wait().

and that's it. that's the whole description. the manpage said "go read wait()" and honestly? main character energy. it's giving "figure it out, the lore is over there." 👑

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page, babe 💖 brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, stamped 2017 — so yes, it's vintage, and yes, it still ate. ⭐ periodt. 🦋