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class method

PTY.check

PTY.check(pid, raise = false) => Process::Status or nil

PTY.check(pid, true) => nil or raises PTY::ChildExited

static VALUE
pty_check(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
{
    VALUE pid, exc;
    rb_pid_t cpid;
    int status;
    const int flag =
#ifdef WNOHANG
        WNOHANG|
#endif
#ifdef WUNTRACED
        WUNTRACED|
#endif
        0;

    rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "11", &pid, &exc);
    cpid = rb_waitpid(NUM2PIDT(pid), &status, flag);
    if (cpid == -1 || cpid == 0) return Qnil;

    if (!RTEST(exc)) return rb_last_status_get();
    raise_from_check(cpid, status);

    UNREACHABLE_RETURN(Qnil);
}

Checks the status of the child process specified by pid. Returns nil if the process is still alive.

If the process is not alive, and raise was true, a PTY::ChildExited exception will be raised. Otherwise it will return a Process::Status instance.

pid: The process id of the process to check
raise: If true and the process identified by pid is no longer alive a PTY::ChildExited is raised.

See also .getpty .open also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1

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