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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:43:05 +1300
From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
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To: "Roland McGrath" <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: waitid() return value strangeness when infop is NULL
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       "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@redhat.com>,
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Test program below.  Two test runs, of which the second shows the
behavior I'm reporting.

$ ./a.out
Created child with PID 7727
infop = 0xbfe608e0
waitid() returned 0
$ ./a.out n
Created child with PID 7729
infop = (nil)
waitid() returned 7729

===

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    siginfo_t info, *infop;
    int options, idtype;
    long s;
    pid_t child;

    child = fork();
    if (child == 0)
        exit(0);
    printf("Created child with PID %ld\n", (long) child);

    idtype = P_PID;
    options = WEXITED;
    infop = (argc > 1 && strchr(argv[1], 'n') != NULL) ? NULL : &info;

    printf("infop = %p\n", infop);

    s = syscall(SYS_waitid, idtype, child, infop, options, NULL);
    if (s == -1) {
        perror("waitid");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    printf("waitid() returned %ld\n", s);

    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
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