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Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork()


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork()
Date: 13 Jun 2001 15:03:41 -0400
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%% Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

  pe> However, this point is somewhat academic.  Nobody uses wait3
  pe> anymore.  (Well, that's not quite true: I just checked all the GNU
  pe> programs we have here, and Bash uses wait3 if waitpid does not
  pe> exist -- but Bash doesn't care whether wait3 fills in rusage, so
  pe> it's actually incorrect for Bash to use AC_FUNC_WAIT3.)

GNU make uses wait3() if waitpid() doesn't exist, as well.

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