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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)wait.3f     6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH WAIT 3F "May 15, 1985"
                      8: .UC 5
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: wait \- wait for a process to terminate
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B integer function wait (status)
                     13: .br
                     14: .B integer status
                     15: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     16: .I Wait
                     17: causes its caller to be suspended until a signal is received or one of
                     18: its child processes terminates.
                     19: If any child has terminated since the last
                     20: .I wait,
                     21: return is immediate; if there are no children, return is immediate
                     22: with an error code.
                     23: .PP
                     24: If the returned value is positive, it is the process ID of the child and
                     25: .I status
                     26: is its termination status (see
                     27: .IR wait (2)).
                     28: If the returned value is negative, it is the negation of a system error code.
                     29: .SH FILES
                     30: .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libU77.a
                     31: .el /usr/lib/libU77.a
                     32: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     33: wait(2), signal(3F), kill(3F), perror(3F)

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