Linux cli command waitpid

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NAME 🖥️ waitpid 🖥️

utility to wait for arbitrary processes

SYNOPSIS

waitpid [-v] [–timeout|-t seconds] pid…

DESCRIPTION

waitpid is a simple command to wait for arbitrary non-child processes.

It exits after all processes whose PIDs have been passed as arguments have exited.

OPTIONS

-v, –verbose

Be more verbose.

-t, –timeout seconds

Maximum wait time.

-e, –exited

Don’t error on already exited PIDs.

-c, –count count

Number of process exits to wait for.

-h, –help

Display help text and exit.

-V, –version

Print version and exit.

EXIT STATUS

waitpid has the following exit status values:

0

success

1

unspecified failure

2

system does not provide necessary functionality

3

timeout expired

AUTHORS

SEE ALSO

waitpid(2) wait(1P)

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.

AVAILABILITY

The waitpid command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

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