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WAITPID

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 202-1-15
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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

Doncqt error on already exited PIDs.

-c, --count count

Number of process exits to wait for.

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

-V, --version

Display 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

 

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

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