mariadb-waitpid1

Usage

Overview

mariadb-waitpid signals a process to terminate and waits for the process to exit. It uses the kill() system call and Unix signals, so it runs on Unix and Unix-like systems.

Invoke mariadb-waitpid like this:

shell> mariadb-waitpid [options] pid wait_time

mariadb-waitpid sends signal 0 to the process identified by pid and waits up to wait_time seconds for the process to terminate. pid and wait_time must be positive integers.

If process termination occurs within the wait time or the process does not exist, mariadb-waitpid returns 0. Otherwise, it returns 1.

If the kill() system call cannot handle signal 0, mariadb-waitpid() uses signal 1 instead.

mariadb-waitpid supports the following options: