On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.s...@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Am 10/21/2012 21:19, schrieb Felipe Contreras:

> I would expect the function to be usable in this way:
>
>         start_command(&proc);
>
>         loop {
>                 if (check_command(&proc))
>                         break;
>         }
>
>         finish_command(&proc);
>
> but it would require a bit more work because it would have to cache the
> exit status in struct child_process.

Yes, I would expect that as well. I just noticed transport-helper also
fails with that, but some reason that's not enough to actually fail
the tests, so something weird is going on.

> BTW, you should check for return value 0 from waitpid() explicitly.

Right.

> Another thought: In your use-case, isn't it so that it would be an error
> that the process exited for whatever reason? I.e., even if it exited with
> code 0 ("success"), it would be an error because it violated the protocol?

How is that violating the protocol?

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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