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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@gal...
Subject: No subject
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 18:37:37 -0500

Question for the Labs guys... why no waitpid()?  Simulating that
requires keeping a list of reaped children, and making sure that
everyone who calls wait checks that list first, and everyone who calls
fork clears it out; no such convention seems to be current, though.