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David Sherman writes:
    >According to the manual for wait(2), the argument supplied
    >is a pointer to int (that is, "int *status"). The manual goes
    >on to talk about its "high byte" and "low byte", obviously
    >a throwback to the PDP-11. Anyone know whether status should
    >be declared pointer to short, or what?

    This is the way I've done it, it's simple, it requires no
masking/shifting, etc.

/*
 *      Structure of return from wait() system call
 *      Note:  This is probably machine dependent
 */
struct status {
        char    dummy1; /* dummy char # 1 */
        char    dummy2; /* dummy char # 2 */
        char    ret;    /* Exit code from process */
        char    pstat;  /* Signal process died with (if any) */
};

    The note above is correct, it is very machine-dependant.  The
VAX version reverses pstat and ret, and defines them first in the
struct (I think).

    Anyway, try it out...

                                        Danny
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