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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@gal...
Subject: No subject
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 22:39:12 -0500

Phil writes:
| >Question for the Labs guys... why no waitpid()?  Simulating that
| none of us want it.

I guessed that part; I was wondering *why*.  (Calling it rwait() would
be more parimonious, I suppose.)

What's the recommended way to go about coding modules that have to fork
and wait and that don't stomp on each other?