Thread: help with waitpid()

Hi!

I'm doing a program where I need to wait until a specific child process ends to go on.
I think this should be easy but somehow the parent doesn't wait for the child to die.

My code is as follows:

Code:

waitpid(p[1], NULL, WNOHANG);

where p[1] is where I have the pid number stored.

What I think is happening is -> the call checks if the child is dead and moves on even if the child isn't dead.
What I want to happen -----> the call checks if the child is dead and if it isn't it stops there until the child dies.