How to wait for exit of non-children processes

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Nothing equivalent to wait(). The usual practice is to poll using kill(pid, 0) and looking for return value -1 and errno of ESRCH to indicate that the process is gone.

Update: Since linux kernel 5.3 there is a pidfd_open syscall, which creates an fd for a given pid, which can be polled to get notification when pid has exited.

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