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- .th WAIT II 2/9/75
- .sh NAME
- wait \*- wait for process to terminate
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- (wait = 7.)
- .br
- .ft B
- sys wait
- .ft R
- .br
- (process ID in r0)
- .br
- (status in r1)
- .s3
- .ft B
- wait(status)
- .br
- int *status;
- .ft R
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- .it Wait
- causes its caller to delay until one of its child
- processes terminates.
- If any child has died since the last
- .it wait,
- return is immediate;
- if there are no children, return is immediate with
- the error bit set
- (resp. with a value of \*-1 returned).
- The normal return yields the process ID of the terminated child
- (in r0).
- In the case of several children several
- .it wait
- calls are needed
- to learn of all the deaths.
- .s3
- If no error is indicated on return,
- the r1 high byte (resp. the high byte stored into
- .it status
- ) contains the low byte of the
- child process r0 (resp. the argument of
- .it exit
- ) when it terminated.
- The r1 (resp.
- .it status
- ) low byte contains the termination status
- of the process.
- See signal (II) for
- a list of termination statuses (signals);
- 0 status indicates normal termination.
- A special status (0177) is returned for a stopped process
- which has not terminated and can be restarted.
- See ptrace (II).
- If the 0200 bit of the termination status
- is set,
- a core image of the process was produced
- by the system.
- .s3
- If the parent process terminates without
- waiting on its children,
- the initialization process
- (process ID = 1)
- inherits the children.
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- exit (II), fork (II), signal (II)
- .sh DIAGNOSTICS
- The error bit
- (c-bit) is set if there are no children not previously waited for.
- From C, a returned value of \*-1 indicates an error.
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