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- .th WAIT I 4/9/73
- .sh NAME
- wait \*- await completion of process
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- .bd wait
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- Wait until all processes started with
- .bd &
- have completed,
- and report on abnormal terminations.
- .s3
- Because
- .it "sys wait"
- must be executed in the parent process,
- the Shell itself executes
- .it wait,
- without creating a new process.
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- sh (I)
- .sh BUGS
- After executing
- .it wait
- you are committed to waiting until
- termination,
- because interrupts and quits are ignored
- by all processes concerned.
- The only out, if the process does not terminate,
- is to
- .it kill
- it from another terminal or to
- hang up.
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