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Top Forums Programming C: error in wait system call Post 302580772 by tafazzi87 on Friday 9th of December 2011 01:55:19 PM
Old 12-09-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by fpmurphy
What OS and version are you on? Cygwin? What compiler version are you using and how are you compiling this program?
i use gcc 4.6.1 under ubuntu 11.10

Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
When something expects a "int *", you're not supposed to declare an "int *". That creates an empty pointer, pointing to nowhere, which will probably cause your program to crash when used!

What they want when they demand an "int *" is pointer to an integer, the address of an integer, so they can modify that integer.

Code:
int stat;

wait(&stat);

thanks a lot i solved this problem Smilie
 

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VOP_FSYNC(9)						   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual					      VOP_FSYNC(9)

NAME
VOP_FSYNC -- flush file system buffers for a file SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/vnode.h> int VOP_FSYNC(struct vnode *vp, int waitfor, struct thread *td); DESCRIPTION
This call flushes any dirty file system buffers for the file. It is used to implement the sync(2) and fsync(2) system calls. Its arguments are: vp The vnode of the file. waitfor Whether the function should wait for I/O to complete. Possible values are: MNT_WAIT Synchronously wait for I/O to complete. MNT_NOWAIT Start all I/O, but do not wait for it. MNT_LAZY Push data not written by file system syncer. td The calling thread. The argument waitfor is either MNT_WAIT or MNT_NOWAIT and specifies whether or not the function should wait for the writes to finish before returning. LOCKS
The file should be locked on entry. RETURN VALUES
Zero is returned if the call is successful, otherwise an appropriate error code is returned. ERRORS
[ENOSPC] The file system is full. [EDQUOT] Quota exceeded. SEE ALSO
vnode(9) AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Doug Rabson. BSD
July 24, 1996 BSD
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