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WAITPID
Section: User Commands (1) Updated: 202-1-15 Index
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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
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Be more verbose.
-t, --timeout seconds
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Maximum wait time.
-e, --exited
-
Doncqt error on already exited PIDs.
-c, --count count
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Number of process exits to wait for.
-h, --help
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Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
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Display version and exit.
EXIT STATUS
waitpid has the following exit status values:
0
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success
1
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unspecified failure
2
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system does not provide necessary functionality
3
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timeout expired
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
waitpid(2) wait(1P)
REPORTING BUGS
For bug reports, use the
https://github.com/uti-linux/uti-linux/issues <L>issue tracker
AVAILABILITY
The waitpid command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/uti-linux/ <L>Linux Kernel Archive
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- EXIT STATUS
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- AUTHORS
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- SEE ALSO
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- AVAILABILITY
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