#ifndef waitlib_h #define waitlib_h /* ** Copyright 1998 - 1999 Double Precision, Inc. ** See COPYING for distribution information. */ #if HAVE_CONFIG_H #include "config.h" #endif #include #if HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H #include #endif #ifndef WEXITSTATUS #define WEXITSTATUS(stat_val) ((unsigned)(stat_val) >> 8) #endif #ifndef WIFEXITED #define WIFEXITED(stat_val) (((stat_val) & 255) == 0) #endif /* ** Ok, wait() pecularities are handled by the following functions. Except ** for them, nobody else should care about wait's quirks. ** ** First, call signal(SIGCHLD) as usual to set up your signal handler. ** Within the signal handler, call wait_reap to reap one (or more) ** child processes. */ void wait_reap( void (*)(pid_t, int), /* Called to process reaped child */ RETSIGTYPE (*)(int)); /* Should point back to signal handler */ /* ** Main program can call wait_block and wait_clear to temporarily ** suspend reaping while in a critical section. */ void wait_block(); void wait_clear(RETSIGTYPE (*)(int)); /* The signal handler */ /* ** wait_restore should be called instead of signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL) ** to restore the signal handler just before exiting. It should also ** be called by any forked process. */ void wait_restore(); /* ** Sometimes the parent wants to wait for one child to terminate. ** call wait_forchild for that. First, wait_block() must be called to ** suspend all asynchronous reaping. Then, call wait_forchild. Before ** wait_forchild returns, the reaper function is guaranteed to be called. ** Asynchronous reaping is still blocked upon exit, call wait_clear() to ** reenable it. */ void wait_forchild( void (*)(pid_t, int), /* Reaper */ RETSIGTYPE (*)(int)); /* Signal handler stub */ /* ** wait_startchildren() is a convenient function to start a given number ** of child processes. The function returns 0 for the parent process, >0 ** for each child process, and < 0 if there was an error starting child ** processes. pidptr points to a pointer to the array of started pids, ** which wait_startchildren initializes, if *pidptr is NULL, wait_startchildren ** mallocs this array. If pidptr is NULL, wait_startchildren uses its own ** internal array. */ int wait_startchildren(unsigned nchildren, pid_t **pidptr); /* ** wait_reforkchild() is used in conjunction with wait_startchildren's array, ** and is intended to be called from the wait handler. It checks if the ** pid is one of the listed children, and, if so, reforks it. ** wait_reforkchild() returns < 0 if there was a problem reforking the child ** process, 0 if the child process started succesfully, or if the terminated ** pid is unknown, > 0 in the reforked process. */ int wait_reforkchild(unsigned nchildren, pid_t *pidptr, pid_t pid); #endif