WAIT(I) 4/9/73 WAIT(I)





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.
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