WAIT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 29, 1985
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NAME
wait - await completion of process
SYNOPSIS
wait
DESCRIPTION
Wait until all processes started with
&
have completed,
and report on abnormal terminations.
Because the
wait(2)
system call must be executed in the parent process,
the Shell itself executes
wait,
without creating a new process.
SEE ALSO
sh(1)
BUGS
Not all the processes of a 3- or more-stage
pipeline are children of the Shell, and thus can't be waited for.
(This bug does not apply to
csh(1).)
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- SEE ALSO
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- BUGS
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