Andreas Vox wrote:
> which ends in:
>
> int ForkedProcess::waitForChild()
> {
> // We'll pretend that the child returns 1 on all error conditions.
> retval_ = 1;
> int status;
> bool wait = true;
> while (wait) {
> pid_t waitrpid = waitpid(pid_, &status, WUNTRACED);
>
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ECHILD suggests that the zombie has been reaped already by a previous
> invocation of waitpid. Are you invoking waitpid yourself? (Don't do that.)
Nope, I just do:
int SnippetConversion::startAndWait(...)
{
command_ = prepareCommand(...);
Andreas Vox wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I wanted to check if the bitmap creation has finished without error
> and found out that startScript always returns '1'.
>
> Apparently waitpid() always returns -1 with errno = ECHILD.
> Is this a race condition in that the childprocess has finished before
> waitpid(
Hi!
I wanted to check if the bitmap creation has finished without error
and found out that startScript always returns '1'.
Apparently waitpid() always returns -1 with errno = ECHILD.
Is this a race condition in that the childprocess has finished before
waitpid() is called? If so, the scheduling on
