WAIT(1) | General Commands Manual | WAIT(1) |
wait
—
wait |
[pid] |
wait
utility waits
until all existing child processes in the background have terminated.
Available operands:
wait
utility waits until that process has
completed and consumes its status information, without consuming the
status information of any other process.
If a pid operand is specified that is not the process ID of a
child background process that still exists, wait
exits without waiting for any processes to complete.
The wait
utility exits with one of the
following values:
wait
utility was invoked with no operands and
all of the existing background child processes have terminated, or the
process specified by the pid operand exited normally with 0 as its exit
status.If the specified process terminated abnormally due to the receipt
of a signal, the exit status information of wait
contains that termination status as well.
wait
command is expected to be IEEE
Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”) compatible.
June 5, 1993 | NetBSD 9.4 |