Re: wait4/waitpid/waitid oddness

[Joshua Hudson]

On 4/7/06, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > The kernel prohibits:
> >
> > 1. WNOHANG on waitpid/wait4
>
> Not 2.6.17-rc1, and not for a lot of earlier kernels.
> At least not on ingress, and just skimming the code
> I can't see any deeper checks that would prevent this.
>
> > 2. __WALL on waitid
> >
> > Why? I need both at once.
>
> Which kernel is failing, and how?

LKNL 2.6.16.1 has this check. Haven't checked any others.
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