WAITPID(3POSIX)

📦 version 2017a, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ PROLOG ✨

okay bestie, real talk before we even get into it — this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. 💅

and here's the tea: the Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior, okay?), or honestly the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈 no cap.

🌸 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().

that's it. that's the whole vibe. this page is literally just a hand-off to wait(), and honestly? iconic of it. go read that one, bestie. 🫶

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 .

so if you spot a typo, don't come for me — it almost definitely snuck in during the source-files-to-man-page glow-up. report it at the link above and we move on. 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this one came to you from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, filed under WAITPID(3POSIX) — slay, periodt. 💅✨

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