- * call waitpid() and print a log message containing the pid
- * and the cause of the child's death.
+ * Call waitpid() and print a log message containing the pid and the cause of
+ * the child's death.
+ *
+ * \return A (negative) paraslash error code on errors, zero, if no child died,
+ * one otherwise. If and only if the function returns one, the content of \a
+ * pid is meaningful.