WAIT(C)                  XENIX System V                   WAIT(C)



     Name
          wait - Awaits completion of background processes.

     Syntax
          wait

     Description
          Waits until all background processes started with an
          ampersand (&) have finished, and reports on abnormal
          terminations.

          Because the wait(S) system call must be executed in the
          parent process, the shell itself executes wait, without
          creating a new process.

     See Also
          sh(C)

     Notes
          Not all the processes of a pipeline with three or more
          stages are children of the shell, and thus cannot be waited
          for.

































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