# HG changeset patch
# User Rik <rik@octave.org>
# Date 1384979336 28800
# Node ID 43c199e83ed7a0e90f29dd3a03b3274cacd84022
# Parent  303157af491fc12d51030e3019296d81b462ef1b
Reap child process in popen2 %!test block.

* syscalls.cc (popen2): Add waitpid() call in %!test block to reap child.
Add seealso links to popen, waitpid in docstring.

diff -r 303157af491f -r 43c199e83ed7 libinterp/corefcn/syscalls.cc
--- a/libinterp/corefcn/syscalls.cc	Wed Nov 20 11:31:17 2013 -0800
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/syscalls.cc	Wed Nov 20 12:28:56 2013 -0800
@@ -283,9 +283,10 @@
    @print{} are\n\
 @end example\n\
 \n\
-Note that @code{popen2}, unlike @code{popen}, will not @qcode{\"reap\"} the\n\
+Note that @code{popen2}, unlike @code{popen}, will not @nospell{\"reap\"} the\n\
 child process.  If you don't use @code{waitpid} to check the child's\n\
 exit status, it will linger until Octave exits.\n\
+@seealso{popen, waitpid}\n\
 @end deftypefn")
 {
   octave_value_list retval;
@@ -418,6 +419,7 @@
 %!   endif
 %! until (done)
 %! fclose (out);
+%! waitpid (pid);
 %! if (unix_sort)
 %!   assert (str, {"these\n","strings\n","some\n","are\n"});
 %! else