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- Submitted-by: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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- In article <111025INNro@ftp.UU.NET> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
- >In article <10of3aINN37a@ftp.UU.NET> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >>The alternative is an implementation that fails in certain situations,
- >>such as a setuid program running in a protected directory.
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- A further alternative is to provide a system call. Ugly, but correct.
-
- >Anyway, as I see it the real problem with SIGCHLD, wait(), etc. is that
- >the UNIX interface for this is not at all what one would really want.
- >For example, you ought to be able to wait() for just the specified PID
- >rather than ANY old child. [...] Recently wait4() and waitpid() have been
- >added to provide direct support for this,
-
- Since Sun provide wait4() and waitpid(), they have no excuse for
- not using it in getcwd() (or popen()).
-
- -- Richard
- --
- Richard Tobin,
- AI Applications Institute, R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
- Edinburgh University.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 19
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