From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2004-03-10T11:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: process.c diff (oops)


--- Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: process.c diff (oops)"
>     on 04/03/10, "Berger, Daniel"
> <djberge@qwest.com> writes:
> 
> |>   * are they proper method names?
> |
> |I'm not sure what you mean by this.  We have wait
> and wait2 - why not
> |wait3?  Or did you mean something else?
> 
> We can name them 'wait3/wait4' or 'wait3/waitpid3'
> or something more
> descriptive.  I'm not sure yet which ones are the
> best names for the
> functions.
> 
> 							>matz.

They *are* called wait3 and waitpid3!  Now I'm really
confused.

I have no idea why "wait4" was chosen instead of
waitpid3 in <sys/wait.h>.  I also wonder what happened
to wait2 (in wait.h I mean).

Dan

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