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Bizzare Unix semantics question. Given the parent of init is init (getppid(() of pid 1 is 1) is init the child of init, and if only init is running what is the correct return from wait(NULL);
Believe it or not I actually found a case it matters in my Fuzix init today and having read various docs I'm really not sure what the answer is. ECHILD or blocking ?
#unix #fuzix #retrocomputing
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