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authorMark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>2018-10-24 18:42:13 +0000
committerMark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>2018-10-24 18:42:13 +0000
commitb8e4cdda35aba72d35c22efcd5eb862d1c0358fe (patch)
tree44bc824838b9fe81451c8bd601c7988e9741ea3d
parent17fbf3cf3420c23aaa7967e9373eaec16133520b (diff)
Notes
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/wait.210
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2
index d38da3fe375d..97f8bb45cb76 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)wait.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd December 1, 2017
+.Dd October 24, 2018
.Dt WAIT 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -597,11 +597,11 @@ fields of
.Fa infop
must be checked against zero to determine if a process reported status.
.Pp
+The
.Fn wait
-called with -1 to wait for any child process will ignore a child that is
-referenced by a process descriptor (see
-.Xr pdfork 2 ) .
-Specific processes can still be waited on by specifying the process ID.
+family of functions will not return a child process created with
+.Xr pdfork 2
+unless specifically directed to do so by specifying its process ID.
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn wait