waitpid.1

WAITPID

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT STATUS
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
REPORTING BUGS
AVAILABILITY

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NAME

waitpid − utility to wait for arbitrary processes

SYNOPSIS

waitpid [−v] [−−timeout|−t seconds] pid…

DESCRIPTION

waitpid is a simple command to wait for arbitrary non−child processes.

It exits after all processes whose PIDs have been passed as arguments have exited.

OPTIONS

−v, −−verbose

Be more verbose.

−t, −−timeout seconds

Maximum wait time.

−e, −−exited

Don’t error on already exited PIDs.

−c, −−count count

Number of process exits to wait for.

−h, −−help

Display help text and exit.

−V, −−version

Print version and exit.

EXIT STATUS

waitpid has the following exit status values:

0

success

1

unspecified failure

2

system does not provide necessary functionality

3

timeout expired

AUTHORS

Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t−8ch.de>

SEE ALSO

waitpid(2) wait(1P)

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/util−linux/util−linux/issues>.

AVAILABILITY

The waitpid command is part of the util−linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util−linux/>.

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