Waitpid equivalent with timeout?

Question

Imagine I have a process that starts several child processes. The parent needs to know when a child exits.

I can use waitpid, but then if/when the paren

Answer 1

Instead of calling waitpid() directly, you could call sigtimedwait() with SIGCHLD (which would be sended to the parent process after child exited) and wait it be delived to the current thread, just as the function name suggested, a timeout parameter is supported.

please check the following code snippet for detail

static bool waitpid_with_timeout(pid_t pid, int timeout_ms, int* status) {
    sigset_t child_mask, old_mask;
    sigemptyset(&child_mask);
    sigaddset(&child_mask, SIGCHLD);

    if (sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &child_mask, &old_mask) == -1) {
        printf("*** sigprocmask failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        return false;
    }

    timespec ts;
    ts.tv_sec = MSEC_TO_SEC(timeout_ms);
    ts.tv_nsec = (timeout_ms % 1000) * 1000000;
    int ret = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(sigtimedwait(&child_mask, NULL, &ts));
    int saved_errno = errno;

    // Set the signals back the way they were.
    if (sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &old_mask, NULL) == -1) {
        printf("*** sigprocmask failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        if (ret == 0) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    if (ret == -1) {
        errno = saved_errno;
        if (errno == EAGAIN) {
            errno = ETIMEDOUT;
        } else {
            printf("*** sigtimedwait failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        }
        return false;
    }

    pid_t child_pid = waitpid(pid, status, WNOHANG);
    if (child_pid != pid) {
        if (child_pid != -1) {
            printf("*** Waiting for pid %d, got pid %d instead\n", pid, child_pid);
        } else {
            printf("*** waitpid failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        }
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

Refer: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/master/cmds/dumpstate/DumpstateUtil.cpp#46