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Juri Dispan 14bb4a9221
switch_root, tailf, uuidparse, waitpid: add pages (#12108)
* switch_root, tailf, uuidparse, waitpid: add pages

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Co-authored-by: Vitor Henrique <87824454+vitorhcl@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-01-23 12:56:57 +05:30

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waitpid

Wait for the termination of arbitrary processes. See also: wait. More information: https://manned.org/waitpid.1.

  • Sleep until all processes whose PIDs have been specified have exited:

waitpid {{pid1 pid2 ...}}

  • Sleep for at most n seconds:

waitpid --timeout {{n}} {{pid1 pid2 ...}}

  • Do not error if specified PIDs have already exited:

waitpid --exited {{pid1 pid2 ...}}

  • Sleep until n of the specified processes have exited:

waitpid --count {{n}} {{pid1 pid2 ...}}

  • Display help:

waitpid -h