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Document that you should read from processes before waiting for them to exit.
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/11645
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@@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ extern SDL_DECLSPEC bool SDLCALL SDL_KillProcess(SDL_Process *process, bool forc
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* normally, a negative signal if it terminated due to a signal, or -255
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* otherwise. It will not be changed if the process is still running.
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*
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* If you create a process with standard output piped to the application (`pipe_stdio` being true) then you should read all of the process output before calling SDL_WaitProcess(). If you don't do this the process might be blocked indefinitely waiting for output to be read and SDL_WaitProcess() will never return true;
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*
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* \param process The process to wait for.
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* \param block If true, block until the process finishes; otherwise, report
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* on the process' status.
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