


      WAIT(3F)                    (bsd 4.2)                    WAIT(3F)



      NAME
           wait - wait for a process to terminate

      SYNTAX
           integer function wait (status)
           integer status

      DESCRIPTION
           Wait 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 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
           wait(2)).  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)































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