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waitpid(2) but for arbitrary non-child processes.
waitpid(2) can only
be used to wait for direct child processes, or it fails immediately.
This crate provides a extension to wait for the exit of any process, not necessarily child processes. Due to platform limitations, the exit reason and status codes still cannot be retrieved.
§Implementation details
- On Linux,
pidfd_open(2)andpoll(2)are used. Thus only Linux 5.3 or later is supported. - On Windows,
OpenProcessandWaitForSingleObjectare used. - On *BSD, including macOS,
kqueue(2)is used. - Other platforms are not supported currently.
Structs§
- Wait
Handle - A locked handle to a process.