On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 03:49:30PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 08:08:54PM +0000, Mariusz Zaborski wrote:
> M> Author: oshogbo
> M> Date: Wed Aug 12 20:08:54 2015
> M> New Revision: 286698
> M> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/286698
> M> 
> M> Log:
> M>   When the wait*(2) syscalls wait for any process (P_ALL), they should
> M>   ignore processes created with the pdfork(2) syscall.
> M>   
> M>   PR:              201054
> M>   Approved by:     pjd (mentor)
> M>   Discussed with:  emaste, rwatson
> 
> I believe this behaviour has a good reason, but it is counterintuitive to
> a person who knows classical fork/wait syscalls and isn't very much into
> the process descriptors.
> 
> Thus, this behaviour must be documented in wait.2 manual page. And of
> course wait.2 must reference pdwait4.2.
Thanks Gleb, I will do as you suggested.

Cheers,
Mariusz

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