.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.14 (Pod::Simple 3.40) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will .\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left .\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. \*(C+ will .\" give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used to do unbreakable dashes and .\" therefore won't be available. \*(C` and \*(C' expand to `' in nroff, .\" nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .tr \(*W- .ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p' .ie n \{\ . ds -- \(*W- . ds PI pi . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch . ds L" "" . ds R" "" . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds -- \|\(em\| . ds PI \(*p . ds L" `` . ds R" '' . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .\" .\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. .de IX .. .nr rF 0 .if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 .if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\ . if \nF \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . if !\nF==2 \{\ . nr % 0 . nr F 2 . \} . \} .\} .rr rF .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "Wait3 3pm" .TH Wait3 3pm "2020-11-09" "perl v5.32.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "NAME" Proc::Wait3 \- Perl extension for wait3 system call .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 \& use Proc::Wait3; \& \& ($pid, $status, $utime, $stime, $maxrss, $ixrss, $idrss, $isrss, \& $minflt, $majflt, $nswap, $inblock, $oublock, $msgsnd, $msgrcv, \& $nsignals, $nvcsw, $nivcsw) = wait3(0); # doesn\*(Aqt wait \& \& ($pid, $status, $utime, $stime, $maxrss, $ixrss, $idrss, $isrss, \& $minflt, $majflt, $nswap, $inblock, $oublock, $msgsnd, $msgrcv, \& $nsignals, $nvcsw, $nivcsw) = wait3(1); # waits for a child .Ve .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" If any child processes have exited, this call will \*(L"reap\*(R" the zombies similar to the perl \*(L"wait\*(R" function. .PP By default, it will return immediately and if there are no dead children, everything will be undefined. If you pass in a true argument, it will block until a child exits (or it gets a signal). .PP .Vb 1 \& $pid PID of exiting child \& \& $status exit status of child, just like C<$?> \& \& $utime floating point user cpu seconds \& \& $stime floating point system cpu seconds \& \& $maxrss the maximum resident set size utilized (in kilobytes). \& \& $minflt the number of page faults serviced without any I/O \& activity; here I/O activity is avoided by "reclaiming" a \& page frame from the list of pages awaiting reallocation. \& \& $majflt the number of page faults serviced that required I/O \& activity. \& \& $nswap the number of times a process was "swapped" out of main \& memory. \& \& $inblock the number of times the file system had to perform input. \& \& $oublock the number of times the file system had to perform output. \& \& $msgsnd the number of messages sent over sockets. \& \& $msgrcv the number of messages received from sockets. \& \& $nsignals the number of signals delivered. \& \& $nvcsw the number of times a context switch resulted due to a \& process voluntarily giving up the processor before its \& time slice was completed (usually to await availability of \& a resource). \& \& $nivcsw the number of times a context switch resulted due to a \& higher priority process becoming runnable or because the \& current process exceeded its time slice. .Ve .SH "AUTHOR" .IX Header "AUTHOR" C. Tilmes .SH "LICENSE" .IX Header "LICENSE" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" perl, wait3, getrusage.