Manual page for WAIT(1)
wait - wait for a process to finish
SYNOPSIS
wait
DESCRIPTION
Wait until all processes started with
&
or
bg
have completed,
and report on abnormal terminations.
Because the
wait.2v
system call must be executed in the parent process,
the shell itself executes
wait,
without creating a new process.
SEE ALSO
csh.1
sh.1
wait.2v
BUGS
Not all the processes of a 3- or more-stage
pipeline are children of the shell, and thus cannot be waited for.
This bug does not apply to
csh.1
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
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Last modified 11/5/97
