On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: >> 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 > Thanks. Implemented as suggested for the next round. -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund -- 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