wait() function survey

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Ben Lindstrom wrote:

> 
> In serverloop.c we have two wait() lines.
> 
> POSIX defines wait() was "pid_t wait(int *status)".  However older BSD
> systems could have "int wait(union wait *statusp)" as it's defines.
> 
> I'm interested to see how many platforms OpenSSH is ported requires the
> latter define.
> 
> I know NeXT does.  

What is the definition of the union? Is it a fatal error or just a
warning if the (int*) version is used?

-d

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