From: Bill Joy <wnj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1979 17:03:08 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: BSD 3 development
X-Git-Tag: BSD-3~728
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BSD 3 development
Work on file usr/man/man1/wait.1

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+.TH WAIT 1 
+.SH NAME
+wait \- await completion of process
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B wait
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Wait until all processes started with
+.B &
+have completed,
+and report on abnormal terminations.
+.PP
+Because the
+.IR  wait (2)
+system call
+must be executed in the parent process,
+the Shell itself executes
+.I wait,
+without creating a new process.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+sh(1)
+.SH BUGS
+Not all the processes of a 3- or more-stage
+pipeline are children of the Shell, and
+thus can't be waited for.
+(This bug does not apply to
+.IR csh (1).)