From b8e4cdda35aba72d35c22efcd5eb862d1c0358fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:42:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify slightly the interaction between wait*() and
 pdfork().

There are multiple ways to wait for any child process to return a
status (e.g., waitpid(-1, ...), waitid(P_ALL, ...)), so don't be so
specific.

MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
---
 lib/libc/sys/wait.2 | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2
index d38da3fe375d..97f8bb45cb76 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)wait.2	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 1, 2017
+.Dd October 24, 2018
 .Dt WAIT 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -597,11 +597,11 @@ fields of
 .Fa infop
 must be checked against zero to determine if a process reported status.
 .Pp
+The
 .Fn wait
-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.
+family of functions will not return a child process created with
+.Xr pdfork 2
+unless specifically directed to do so by specifying its process ID.
 .Sh ERRORS
 The
 .Fn wait