I filed a bugreport a while back claiming that there were some required bits missing from the header files for use with the waitid() function.
The response to this bugreport was essentially "these don't seem to be defined anywhere". My original reference, upon finding some omissions in a number of the header files (now mostly addressed), was to do some comparisons with the "base spec" - SUSv2. In that reference, there's a description of required elements of <sys/wait.h>, including: Macro: WIFCONTINUED() Symbolic Constants: WEXITED, WSTOPPED, WCONTINUED, WNOHANG, WNOWAIT In referring back to the glibc sources - I poked through the tarball for 2.2.5, since that's what I happened to have handy - these are not present in the sources. There's an #ifdef WIFCONTINUED in an appropriate source file, but this constant is not defined elsewhere. The only appearance in the glib-2.2.5 source tree is in the file conform/data/sys/wait.h-data which lists all of the absent symbols. I could accept the argument that these are source-level, not binary-level issues and so we should not worry. My concern was mainly about source portability if someone is considering these to be "standard" features, and we do include the waitid() function in the spec. Is this a place where we should just agree to be different from the "requirements" of the base spec? Or should there be some sort of spec adjustment (actually database adjustment) to expose these constants & macro? I'll accept any appearance of consensus as the direction to take in closing out the bugreport. Thanks, Mats -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
