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.TH "\fBMARIADB-WAITPID\fR" "1" "3 September 2024" "MariaDB 11.4" "MariaDB Database System"
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.\" mariadb-waitpid
.SH "NAME"
mariadb-waitpid \- kill process and wait for its termination (mariadb-waitpid is now a symlink to mariadb-waitpid)
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBmariadb-waitpid\ [\fR\fB\fIoptions\fR\fR\fB]\ \fR\fB\fIpid\fR\fR\fB\ \fR\fB\fIwait_time\fR\fR\ 'u
\fBmariadb-waitpid [\fR\fB\fIoptions\fR\fR\fB] \fR\fB\fIpid\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fIwait_time\fR\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBmariadb-waitpid\fR
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\&.
.PP
Invoke
\fBmariadb-waitpid\fR
like this:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
shell> \fBmariadb-waitpid [\fR\fB\fIoptions\fR\fR\fB] \fR\fB\fIpid\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fIwait_time\fR\fR
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.PP
\fBmariadb-waitpid\fR
sends signal 0 to the process identified by
\fIpid\fR
and waits up to
\fIwait_time\fR
seconds for the process to terminate\&.
\fIpid\fR
and
\fIwait_time\fR
must be positive integers\&.
.PP
If process termination occurs within the wait time or the process does not exist,
\fBmariadb-waitpid\fR
returns 0\&. Otherwise, it returns 1\&.
.PP
If the
kill()
system call cannot handle signal 0,
\fBmariadb-waitpid()\fR
uses signal 1 instead\&.
.PP
\fBmariadb-waitpid\fR
supports the following options:
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
.\" mariadb-waitpid: help option
.\" help option: mariadb-waitpid
\fB\-\-help\fR,
\fB\-?\fR,
\fB\-I\fR
.sp
Display a help message and exit\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
.\" mariadb-waitpid: verbose option
.\" verbose option: mariadb-waitpid
\fB\-\-verbose\fR,
\fB\-v\fR
.sp
Verbose mode\&. Display a warning if signal 0 could not be used and signal 1 is used instead\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
.\" mariadb-waitpid: version option
.\" version option: mariadb-waitpid
\fB\-\-version\fR,
\fB\-V\fR
.sp
Display version information and exit\&.
.RE
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.br
.PP
Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2024 MariaDB Foundation
.PP
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
.PP
This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
.PP
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base, available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/
.SH AUTHOR
MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).