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		loeg on Feb 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dtrace for Linux Process descriptors are unfortunately a little incomplete -- pdwait() was never implemented. They don't seem to be getting much use.

crest on Feb 22, 2018 [–]

You don't need pdwait(). You can watch the process descriptor with kqueue to get the process exit status look for EVFILT_PROCDESC in https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?kevent.

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