method

check

ruby latest stable - Class: PTY

check(p1, p2 = v2)

public

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.

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;
}

check

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