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| author | Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-10-24 18:42:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-10-24 18:42:13 +0000 |
| commit | b8e4cdda35aba72d35c22efcd5eb862d1c0358fe (patch) | |
| tree | 44bc824838b9fe81451c8bd601c7988e9741ea3d | |
| parent | 17fbf3cf3420c23aaa7967e9373eaec16133520b (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/wait.2 | 10 |
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 |
