Is the "waitpid" system call still used in AMD64 (x86_64)?
by rempas from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6F4RR)
Not to be confused with "waitid" (the one in question has a "p" on its name), I would like to ask if anyone knows if, the "waitpid" system call is still used on AMD64 (among other arcs)?
I have found this amazing page that contains system calls and their associative numbers for a number of architectures.
To make things more interesting, there are lots of other pages that show a system call table like this or this for example (which are both outdated) and they don't seem to even list "waitpid". Really weird...
So yeah, does someone know what's going on? The man pages do not mention "waitpid" as deprecated, and don't even say that it isn't recommended to be used on future programs (which they do for some other system calls).
I have found this amazing page that contains system calls and their associative numbers for a number of architectures.
To make things more interesting, there are lots of other pages that show a system call table like this or this for example (which are both outdated) and they don't seem to even list "waitpid". Really weird...
So yeah, does someone know what's going on? The man pages do not mention "waitpid" as deprecated, and don't even say that it isn't recommended to be used on future programs (which they do for some other system calls).