On Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Would it make sense to > > have a function finish_async_nowait() instead of is_async_alive() that > > (1) stresses the start/finish symmetry and (2) can return more than just > > Boolean? >... > > I'm not entirely sure how to make the interface, though. Any good > suggestions? I suggest to model finish_async_nowait() after waitpid() so that while ((pid = waitpid(-1, &status, WNOHANG)) > 0) ... becomes while ((pid = finish_async_nowait(&some_async, &status)) > 0) ... but where the resulting status is already "decoded", i.e. zero is success and non-zero is failure (including death through signal); WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS should not be applicable to status anymore. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html