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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

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

Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t-8ch.de>

SEE ALSO

waitpid (2) wait (1P)

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker <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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