+ int cnt, status;
+ pid_t pid;
+ /* An empty waitpid() loop was put here by Tridge and we could never
+ * get him to explain why he put it in, so rather than taking it
+ * out we're instead saving the child exit statuses for later use.
+ * The waitpid() loop presumably eliminates all possibility of leaving
+ * zombie children, maybe that's why he did it.
+ */
+ while ((pid = waitpid(-1, &status, WNOHANG)) > 0) {
+ /* save the child's exit status */
+ for (cnt = 0; cnt < MAXCHILDPROCS; cnt++) {
+ if (pid_stat_table[cnt].pid == 0) {
+ pid_stat_table[cnt].pid = pid;
+ pid_stat_table[cnt].status = status;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }