NAME

wait − wait for a process to terminate

SYNTAX

integer function wait ( status )
integer status

DESCRIPTION

The Wait function causes its caller to be suspended until a signal is received or one of its child processes terminates. If any child has terminated since the last call to wait, return is immediate; if there are no children, return is immediate with an error code.

If the returned value is positive, it is the process ID of the child and status is its termination status (see wait2 If the returned value is negative, it is the negation of a system error code.

FILES

/usr/lib/libU77.a

SEE ALSO

wait(2)
signal(3f), kill(3f), perror(3f) in the FORTRAN Reference Pages