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1.1     ! root        1: .th WAIT I 4/9/73
        !             2: .sh NAME
        !             3: wait \*- await completion of process
        !             4: .sh SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .bd wait
        !             6: .sh DESCRIPTION
        !             7: Wait until all processes started with
        !             8: .bd &
        !             9: have completed,
        !            10: and report on abnormal terminations.
        !            11: .s3
        !            12: Because
        !            13: .it "sys wait"
        !            14: must be executed in the parent process,
        !            15: the shell itself executes
        !            16: .it wait,
        !            17: without creating a new process
        !            18: .sh "SEE ALSO"
        !            19: sh(I)
        !            20: .sh BUGS
        !            21: After executing
        !            22: .it wait
        !            23: there is no way to interrupt
        !            24: the processes waited on.
        !            25: This is because interrupts were
        !            26: set to be ignored when the process
        !            27: was created.
        !            28: The only out (if the process does not terminate)
        !            29: is to
        !            30: .it kill
        !            31: the process from another terminal or to
        !            32: hangup.

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