what's the use of 0 in wait system call?
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Hi,
The syntax for the wait system call is pid= wait(&var) where pid is the process id of child and var is the variable which will contain the reason for exiting child.
But what happens when we use wait((int *)0)? What does it exactly mean?
Thank you.
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