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authorLukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de>2011-07-02 07:33:26 +0200
committerLukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de>2011-07-02 10:15:36 +0200
commit7e61b3de06a190aa9e84b3fc0070ee27e57770d1 (patch)
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parent6e2b00096dcf2733b58e82cda3510ed638983a20 (diff)
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Add child_wait() function
Can be used to wait for the termination of a child process. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de>
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diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index 61c87a1..75e702b 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
#include "calcurse.h"
@@ -789,3 +790,18 @@ fork_exec (int *pfdin, int *pfdout, const char *path, char *const *arg)
}
return pid;
}
+
+/* Wait for a child process to terminate. */
+int
+child_wait (int *pfdin, int *pfdout, int pid)
+{
+ int stat;
+
+ if (pfdin)
+ close (*pfdin);
+ if (pfdout)
+ close (*pfdout);
+
+ waitpid (pid, &stat, 0);
+ return stat;
+}