NAME¶

waitpid - utility to wait for arbitrary processes

SYNOPSIS¶

waitpid [-v] [--timeout|-t seconds] PID[:inode]...

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.

Optionally, a process can be addressed with the format PID:inode. The inode identifies the unique process’s file descriptor. To retrieve a process’s inode number you can use the getino(1) utility.

OPTIONS¶

-v, --verbose

-t, --timeout seconds

-e, --exited

-c, --count count

-h, --help

-V, --version

EXIT STATUS¶

waitpid has the following exit status values:

0

1

2

3

AUTHORS¶

Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t-8ch.de>

SEE ALSO¶

waitpid(2) wait(1P) getino(1)

REPORTING BUGS¶

For bug reports, use the issue tracker <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/>.