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# WaitProcess

Wait for process to terminate.

## Declaration

Source position: oldlinux.pp line 1355

`function WaitProcess(`
`Pid: LongInt`
`):LongInt;`

## Description

WaitProcess waits for process PID to exit. WaitProcess is equivalent to the WaitPID call:

    WaitPid(PID,@result,0)

Handles of Signal interrupts (errno=EINTR), and returns the Exitcode of Process PID (>=0) or -Status if it was terminated

## Errors

None.

## See also

WaitPID |  | Wait for a process to terminate
WTERMSIG |  | Return the signal that caused a process to exit.
WSTOPSIG |  | Return the exit code from the process.
WIFEXITED |  | Check whether the process exited normally
WIFSTOPPED |  | Check whether the process is currently stopped.
WIFSIGNALED |  | Check whether the process was exited by a signal.
W_EXITCODE |  | Construct an exit status based on an return code and signal.
W_STOPCODE |  | Construct an exit status based on a signal.
WEXITSTATUS |  | Extract the exit status from the WaitPID result.

Documentation generated on: Feb 26 2014