From 7e61b3de06a190aa9e84b3fc0070ee27e57770d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 07:33:26 +0200
Subject: Add child_wait() function

Can be used to wait for the termination of a child process.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de>
---
 src/utils.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/utils.c')

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;
+}
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