Unit 'Unix'	Package
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WaitProcess

Wait for process to terminate.

Declaration

Source position: unix.pp line 133

function WaitProcess(

Pid: cint

):cint;

WaitProcess waits for process PID to exit. WaitProcess is equivalent to the #rtl.baseunix.FpWaitPID call:

FpWaitPid(PID,@result,0)

Handles of Signal interrupts (errno=EINTR), and returns the Exitcode of Process PID (>=0) or -Status if it was terminated

None.

#rtl.baseunix.FpWaitPID		Wait for a process to terminate.
#rtl.baseunix.WTERMSIG		Return the signal that caused a process to exit.
#rtl.baseunix.WSTOPSIG		Return the exit code from the process.
#rtl.baseunix.WIFEXITED		Check whether the process exited normally.
WIFSTOPPED		Check whether the process is currently stopped.
#rtl.baseunix.WIFSIGNALED		Check whether the process was exited by a signal.
W_EXITCODE		Construct an exit status based on an return code and signal.
W_STOPCODE		Construct an exit status based on a signal.
#rtl.baseunix.WEXITSTATUS		Extract the exit status from the fpWaitPID result.