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Ulm's Modula-2 Library:
SysWait


NAME

SysWait - wait for a child process to terminate

SYNOPSIS

PROCEDURE Wait(VAR pid, status: CARDINAL) : BOOLEAN;

DESCRIPTION

Wait blocks the current process until the next child process terminates and returns its process ID in pid and its termination status in status. A more detailed explanation is given by wait(2).

SEE ALSO

wait(2), SysExec, SysExit, SysFork

BUGS


Edited by: borchert, last change: 1997/02/26, revision: 1.1, converted to HTML: 1997/04/28

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