Re: pwait(1) added

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:20:27PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>  |On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:27:53PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>  |> Joerg asked in another mail for something non trivial for a basic process,
>  |> something I would do in a high-level scripting language (Perl, Python).
>  |
>  |There is no existing facility to get all the necessary data.
> 
> Debian's dpkg/utils/start-stop-daemon.c is portable to multiple
> operating systems, including FreeBSD and OpenBSD (don't tried that
> though).

How does it do anything about monitoring process hierachies?
Hint: it doesn't, there is no portable mechanism for doing that.

Joerg