/* * Program: UNIX Grim PID Reaper -- waitpid() version * * Author: Mark Crispin * Networks and Distributed Computing * Computing & Communications * University of Washington * Administration Building, AG-44 * Seattle, WA 98195 * Internet: MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU * * Date: 30 November 1993 * Last Edited: 24 October 2000 * * The IMAP toolkit provided in this Distribution is * Copyright 2000 University of Washington. * The full text of our legal notices is contained in the file called * CPYRIGHT, included with this Distribution. */ /* Grim PID reaper * Accepts: process ID * kill request flag * status return value */ void grim_pid_reap_status (int pid,int killreq,void *status) { if (killreq) kill(pid,SIGHUP);/* kill if not already dead */ while ((waitpid (pid,status,NIL) < 0) && (errno != ECHILD)); }