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Re: pwait(1) added



>> Couldn't acct(2) be enhanced to capture what you need?
> Possibly, but do you really want to log all processes to disk during
> a bulk build with hundreds of forks per second?

Perhaps one of the enhancements could be to send the data down a pipe
to a process rather than writing it to disk?  I'm thinking rather like
the difference between ktrace(2) and fktrace(2).

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