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Mike Coleman <mkc@kc.net> writes:

> The tracer (e.g., strace) needs to be able to wait on clone and
> non-clone kids at the same time, but the current __WCLONE doesn't
> allow this. The change to exit.c below changes its semantics to
> make it wait for all kids. (I wonder if any existing software
> depends on the old semantics. We could always add a new flag
> instead.)

gdb depends on the old semantics since we had to work around this
limitation.

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