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1.1       root        1: .TH WAIT 3F "13 June 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: wait \- wait for a process to terminate
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B integer function wait (status)
                      7: .br
                      8: .B integer status
                      9: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     10: .I Wait
                     11: causes its caller to be suspended until a signal is received or one of
                     12: its child processes terminates.
                     13: If any child has terminated since the last
                     14: .I wait,
                     15: return is immediate; if there are no children, return is immediate
                     16: with an error code.
                     17: .PP
                     18: If the returned value is positive, it is the process ID of the child and
                     19: .I status
                     20: is its termination status (see
                     21: .IR wait (2)).
                     22: If the returned value is negative, it is the negation of a system error code.
                     23: .SH FILES
                     24: .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libU77.a
                     25: .el /usr/lib/libU77.a
                     26: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     27: wait(2), signal(3F), kill(3F), perror(3F)

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