May 19, 2020
6:14 p.m.
On Tue, May 19, 2020, at 5:41 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:33 AM Barry Scott <barry.scott@forcepoint.com> wrote:
Why not waitpid for all children (pid=0 or pid=-1) in a single call?
Because then you might reap a child process someone launched with a different API - eg the Python subprocess module.
Exactly. I am currently using this as a workaround, but it's not a general solution. You need to be careful because subprocess use hides in many places. For example, beware uuid.uuid1(). ---Tom