/* ** FULLWAIT -- performs a wait(II) primitive for a given child. ** ** The wait primitive is executed as many times as needed to get ** termination status for a given child. The case of an interrupt ** during the wait is handled. No other children may die during ** the wait. Also, the child must die "normally", that is, as the ** result of an exit() system call, or from an interrupt. ** ** Parameters: ** "child" -- the pid of the child process to wait for, ** returned from the fork() system call. ** "name" -- a character string representing the name of ** the calling routine; printed on syserr's. ** Return value: ** The exit parameter of the child process. */ fullwait(child, name) int child; char *name; { auto int stat; register int i; extern int errno; register char *n; register char *coredump; n = name; /* wait for a child to die */ while ((i = wait(&stat)) != child) { /* it is not the child we want; chew on it a little more */ if (i != -1) syserr("%s: bad child: pid %d stat 0%o", n, i, stat); /* check for interrupted system call */ if (errno != 4) { /* wait with no child */ syserr("%s: no child", n); } errno = 0; /* dropped out from signal: reexecute the wait */ } /* check termination status */ i = stat & 0377; if (i > 2) { /* child collapsed */ if (i & 0200) { coredump = " -- core dumped"; i =& 0177; } else { coredump = ""; } syserr("%s: stat %d%s", n, i, coredump); } /* return exit status */ return (stat >> 8); }