If the exit status value (*note Program Termination::) of the child process is zero, then the status value reported by `waitpid' or `wait' is also zero. You can test for other kinds of information encoded in the returned status value using the following macros. These macros are defined in the header file `sys/wait.h'.
-- Macro: int WIFEXITED (int STATUS) This macro returns a nonzero value if the child process terminated normally with `exit' or `_exit'.
-- Macro: int WEXITSTATUS (int STATUS) If `WIFEXITED' is true of STATUS, this macro returns the low-order 8 bits of the exit status value from the child process. *Note Exit Status::.
-- Macro: int WIFSIGNALED (int STATUS) This macro returns a nonzero value if the child process terminated because it received a signal that was not handled. *Note Signal Handling::.