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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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