pwait1

Usage

Overview

pwait waits until each of the given processes has terminated.

The options are as follows:

-v

Print the exit status when each process terminates.

-c

Return 111 if any process exited non-successfully.

Exit status

The pwait utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Invalid pids elicit a warning message but are otherwise ignored.

Errors

Check these prerequisites if you see this error:

binding sk_nl error: Operation not permitted

pwait requires special permissions to run, either root or the Linux CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

pwait only works on Linux kernels with the kernel options

CONFIG_CONNECTOR=y
CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS=y