WAIT(I) 4/9/73 WAIT(I)
NAME
wait - await completion of process
SYNOPSIS
wait
DESCRIPTION
Wait until all processes started with & have completed, and
report on abnormal terminations.
Because sys wait must be executed in the parent process, the
shell itself executes wait, without creating a new process
SEE ALSO
sh(I)
BUGS
After executing wait there is no way to interrupt the
processes waited on. This is because interrupts were set to
be ignored when the process was created. The only out (if
the process does not terminate) is to kill the process from
another terminal or to hangup.