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What is waitpid?

#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <time.h> #include <sys/wait.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { int pid1 = fork(); if (pid1 == -1) { printf("Error creating process"); return 1; } if (pid1 == 0) { sleep(4); printf("Finished execution (%d)\n", getpid()); return 0; } int pid2 = fork(); if (pid2 == -1) { printf("Error creating process"); return 2; } if (pid2 == 0) { sleep(1); printf("Finished execution (%d)\n", getpid()); return 0; } int pid1_res = waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG); printf("Waited for %d\n", pid1_res); int pid2_res = waitpid(pid2, NULL, WNOHANG); printf("Waited for %d\n", pid2_res); return 0; }
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Unix Processes in C

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