Say I have a program that calls this function every 2 seconds

static int
tel(char *user, char *tty, const char *what)
{
pid_t   cpid, wpid;
int     stats;

cpid = fork();
if (cpid < 0) {
err("fork failed:", cpid);
}
if((execlp("tel", "tel", user, tty, what, (char *)0)) < 0)
perror("execlp tel failed\n");
_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}


while ((wpid= wait(&stats)) != cpid && wpid != -1)
;

return (WIFEXITED(stats) ? WEXITSTATUS(stats) : -2);
}


would calling wait() every 2 seconds, would I be 'polling'?

Chad

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