thanks for "down" answers

[david wald]

In article <1082 at goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>From article <1886 at loral.UUCP>, by jlh at loral.UUCP (Physically Phffft):
>> In all his examples he used wait ( (char *) 0).
>
>From the manual:
>
>     #include <sys/wait.h>
>
>     pid = wait(status)
>     int pid;
>     union wait *status;
>
>     pid = wait(0)
>     int pid;
>
>Your instructor correctly casts the 0 to a pointer-type, which
>the manual omits.

On the other hand, it's the wrong type, and there's no guarantee that
a (char *) will work any better than an int, rather than a
(union wait *).

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