+
+ // has the process really terminated? unfortunately GDK (or GLib) seem to
+ // generate G_IO_HUP notification even when it simply tries to read from a
+ // closed fd and hasn't terminated at all
+ int pid = (proc_data->pid > 0) ? proc_data->pid : -(proc_data->pid);
+ int status = 0;
+ int rc = waitpid(pid, &status, WNOHANG);
+
+ if ( rc == 0 )
+ {
+ // no, it didn't exit yet, continue waiting
+ return;
+ }
+
+ // set exit code to -1 if something bad happened
+ proc_data->exitcode = rc != -1 && WIFEXITED(status) ? WEXITSTATUS(status)
+ : -1;
+
+ // child exited, end waiting