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authorAndrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>2015-01-05 12:37:43 -0500
committerAndrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>2015-01-05 12:37:43 -0500
commit0d867aa42ea8c3487678dcceea484c10c88914cb (patch)
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Fix bug in io.c:wait_any where we may not have waited for the requested child process exit status.
Diffstat (limited to 'io.c')
-rw-r--r--io.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index 6e6d1a1a..f849f839 100644
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -2250,7 +2250,12 @@ wait_any(int interesting) /* pid of interest, if any */
#endif
for (;;) {
# if defined(HAVE_WAITPID) && defined(WNOHANG)
- if ((pid = waitpid(-1, & status, WNOHANG)) == 0)
+ /*
+ * N.B. If the caller wants status for a specific child process
+ * (i.e. interesting is non-zero), then we must hang until we
+ * get exit status for that child.
+ */
+ if ((pid = waitpid(-1, & status, (interesting ? 0 : WNOHANG))) == 0)
/* No children have exited */
break;
# elif defined(HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H) /* POSIX compatible sys/wait.h */