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[MiNT] MiNTLib bug, wait*

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Subject: [MiNT] MiNTLib bug, wait*
From: "Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 03:40:20 +0200
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Hi,

yet anuzzer bug in the MiNTLib 0.50.1:  the upper 2 bytes in the
status-pointer argument passed to wait4 will contain garbage (more exactly
the child pid) on completion.  This bug also affects wait(), wait3(),
waitpid() and the return value from system() because these functions call
wait4() internally.

Fix: Don't interpret the contents of the status pointer (resp. the return
value from system()) yourself, use the macros in sys/wait.h instead.

Ciao

Guido
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