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### 26.7 Process Completion Status

If the exit status value (see 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. See 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. See Signal Handling.

— Macro: int WTERMSIG (int status)

> If `WIFSIGNALED` is true of status, this macro returns the signal number of the signal that terminated the child process.

— Macro: int WCOREDUMP (int status)

> This macro returns a nonzero value if the child process terminated and produced a core dump.

— Macro: int WIFSTOPPED (int status)

> This macro returns a nonzero value if the child process is stopped.

— Macro: int WSTOPSIG (int status)

> If `WIFSTOPPED` is true of status, this macro returns the signal number of the signal that caused the child process to stop.