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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200 |
| commit | 4131356cdab8d37fc395ca5466a0401c8573380c (patch) | |
| tree | 8c4c6f1c3172358b735b481cbbfdd9cc04b00ed9 /man2/wait.2 | |
| parent | fd00f831b52d61a91d59cb3b46182869145d9700 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4131356cdab8.tar.gz | |
man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both
regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was
previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS.
- Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_
systems.
- STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards.
That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17
is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and
POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a
bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux',
'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if
it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs.
- In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was
in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds.
- In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I
found are deprecated by the relevant standards.
- A few other related changes...
Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/wait.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/wait.2 | 51 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/man2/wait.2 b/man2/wait.2 index e2dcd59bda..7386dffef9 100644 --- a/man2/wait.2 +++ b/man2/wait.2 @@ -460,7 +460,34 @@ or .I pid is equal to .BR INT_MIN . +.SH VERSIONS +.SS C library/kernel differences +.BR wait () +is actually a library function that (in glibc) is implemented as a call to +.BR wait4 (2). +.PP +On some architectures, there is no +.BR waitpid () +system call; +.\" e.g., i386 has the system call, but not x86-64 +instead, this interface is implemented via a C library +wrapper function that calls +.BR wait4 (2). +.PP +The raw +.BR waitid () +system call takes a fifth argument, of type +.IR "struct rusage\ *" . +If this argument is non-NULL, +then it is used to return resource usage information about the child, +in the same manner as +.BR wait4 (2). +See +.BR getrusage (2) +for details. .SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. .SH NOTES A child that terminates, but has not been waited for becomes a "zombie". @@ -577,30 +604,6 @@ Since Linux 4.7, the .B __WALL flag is automatically implied if the child is being ptraced. -.SS C library/kernel differences -.BR wait () -is actually a library function that (in glibc) is implemented as a call to -.BR wait4 (2). -.PP -On some architectures, there is no -.BR waitpid () -system call; -.\" e.g., i386 has the system call, but not x86-64 -instead, this interface is implemented via a C library -wrapper function that calls -.BR wait4 (2). -.PP -The raw -.BR waitid () -system call takes a fifth argument, of type -.IR "struct rusage\ *" . -If this argument is non-NULL, -then it is used to return resource usage information about the child, -in the same manner as -.BR wait4 (2). -See -.BR getrusage (2) -for details. .SH BUGS According to POSIX.1-2008, an application calling .BR waitid () |