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If status is not NULL, wait() and waitpid() store status infor-
mation in the int to which it points. This integer can be
inspected with the following macros (which take the integer
itself as an argument, not a pointer to it, as is done in wait()
and waitpid()!):
WIFEXITED(status)
returns true if the child terminated normally, that is,
by calling exit(3) or _exit(2), or by returning from
main().
WEXITSTATUS(status)
returns the exit status of the child. This consists of
the least significant 8 bits of the status argument that
the child specified in a call to exit(3) or _exit(2) or
as the argument for a return statement in main(). This
macro should only be employed if WIFEXITED returned true.
WIFSIGNALED(status)
returns true if the child process was terminated by a
signal.
WTERMSIG(status)
returns the number of the signal that caused the child
process to terminate. This macro should only be employed
if WIFSIGNALED returned true.
WCOREDUMP(status)
returns true if the child produced a core dump. This
macro should only be employed if WIFSIGNALED returned
true. This macro is not specified in POSIX.1-2001 and is
not available on some Unix implementations (e.g., AIX,
SunOS). Only use this enclosed in #ifdef WCOREDUMP ...
#endif.
WIFSTOPPED(status)
returns true if the child process was stopped by delivery
of a signal; this is only possible if the call was done
using WUNTRACED or when the child is being traced (see
ptrace(2)).
WSTOPSIG(status)
returns the number of the signal which caused the child
to stop. This macro should only be employed if WIF-
STOPPED returned true.
WIFCONTINUED(status)
(since Linux 2.6.10) returns true if the child process
was resumed by delivery of SIGCONT.
因此它存储“孩子如何终止”的状态。
您可以使用宏来调查孩子究竟是如何终止的,并且您可以根据孩子的终止状态定义一些操作。