pdwait4(2): Remove documentation of vaporware

This syscall has never existed and is not at risk of existing any time soon.
Remove documentation referencing it, which has been wrong since FreeBSD 9.

Reported by:	allanjude@
This commit is contained in:
Conrad Meyer 2017-06-17 17:32:40 +00:00
parent ea2f16965e
commit a13136cdb7
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=320058
3 changed files with 6 additions and 24 deletions

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@ -421,8 +421,7 @@ MLINKS+=open.2 openat.2
MLINKS+=pathconf.2 fpathconf.2
MLINKS+=pathconf.2 lpathconf.2
MLINKS+=pdfork.2 pdgetpid.2\
pdfork.2 pdkill.2 \
pdfork.2 pdwait4.2
pdfork.2 pdkill.2
MLINKS+=pipe.2 pipe2.2
MLINKS+=poll.2 ppoll.2
MLINKS+=rctl_add_rule.2 rctl_get_limits.2 \

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@ -32,14 +32,13 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 8, 2016
.Dd June 17, 2017
.Dt PDFORK 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pdfork ,
.Nm pdgetpid ,
.Nm pdkill ,
.Nm pdwait4
.Nm pdkill
.Nd System calls to manage process descriptors
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
@ -51,8 +50,6 @@
.Fn pdgetpid "int fd" "pid_t *pidp"
.Ft int
.Fn pdkill "int fd" "int signum"
.Ft int
.Fn pdwait4 "int fd" "int *status" "int options" "struct rusage *rusage"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Process descriptors are special file descriptors that represent processes,
and are created using
@ -96,11 +93,6 @@ except that it accepts a process descriptor,
.Fa fd ,
rather than a PID.
.Pp
.Fn pdwait4
behaves identically to
.Xr wait4 2 ,
but operates with respect to a process descriptor argument rather than a PID.
.Pp
The following system calls also have effects specific to process descriptors:
.Pp
.Xr fstat 2
@ -146,9 +138,6 @@ does.
and
.Fn pdkill
return 0 on success and -1 on failure.
.Pp
.Fn pdwait4
returns a PID on success and -1 on failure.
.Sh ERRORS
These functions may return the same error numbers as their PID-based equivalents
(e.g.
@ -180,9 +169,8 @@ for
The
.Fn pdfork ,
.Fn pdgetpid ,
.Fn pdkill
and
.Fn pdwait4
.Fn pdkill
system calls first appeared in
.Fx 9.0 .
.Pp
@ -197,6 +185,3 @@ and
.An Jonathan Anderson Aq Mt jonathan@FreeBSD.org
at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory with support from a grant
from Google, Inc.
.Sh BUGS
.Fn pdwait4
has not yet been implemented.

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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)wait.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 1, 2016
.Dd June 17, 2017
.Dt WAIT 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -601,9 +601,7 @@ must be checked against zero to determine if a process reported status.
called with -1 to wait for any child process will ignore a child that is
referenced by a process descriptor (see
.Xr pdfork 2 ) .
Specific processes can still be waited on by specifying the process ID
or descriptor (see
.Xr pdwait 4 ) .
Specific processes can still be waited on by specifying the process ID.
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn wait