Manpages - waitpid.1

waitpid - utility to wait for arbitrary processes

waitpid [-v] [*–timeout*|*-t* /seconds/] pid…

waitpid is a simple command to wait for arbitrary non-child processes.

It exits after all processes whose PIDs have been passed as arguments have exited.

-v, –verbose

Be more verbose.

-t, –timeout seconds

Maximum wait time.

-e, –exited

Don't error on already exited PIDs.

-c, –count count

Number of process exits to wait for.

-h, –help

Display help text and exit.

-V, –version

Print version and exit.

waitpid has the following exit status values:

0

success

1

unspecified failure

2

system does not provide necessary functionality

3

timeout expired

*waitpid*(2) *wait*(1P)

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.

The waitpid command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.