waitpid

[Cameron Simpson]

On 15Feb2007 17:03, Kartik CDS <kartik.cds at gmail.com> wrote:
| Hello I am using waitpid with WNOHANG and WUNTRACED options.
| Is there any interface which gives the same functionality as waitpid but
| will allow me to specify a time for which I want the call to be blocked ?

Not that's I'm aware of. You could set an alarm with alarm(), and catch
the signal, or spin off a thread I guess.
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