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lib/gis: add documentation for G_wait() #7912

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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions lib/gis/spawn.c
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Expand Up @@ -945,6 +945,21 @@ int G_spawn(const char *command, ...)
return status;
}

/**
* \brief Wait for a spawned process to finish.
*
* Blocks until the process identified by \p i_pid exits, then returns the
* process exit code. On non-Windows platforms, if the process terminates due
* to a signal, the signal number is returned instead.
*
* \param[in] i_pid Process identifier returned by a spawn function.
* \return Process exit code on normal termination.
* \return Signal number if the process was terminated by a signal on
* non-Windows platforms.
* \return -1 if the process cannot be opened, waited for, or queried.
* \return -0x100 (-256) if the process ended with an unsupported wait
* status on non-Windows platforms.
*/
int G_wait(int i_pid)
{
#ifdef _WIN32
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