MirBSD manpage: wait(1)
WAIT(1) BSD Reference Manual WAIT(1)
wait - await process completion
wait [pid]
If invoked with no arguments, the wait utility waits until all existing
child processes in the background have terminated.
Available operands:
pid If a pid operand is specified, and it is the process ID of a
background child process that still exists, the wait utility
waits until that process has completed and consumes its status
information, without consuming the status information of any oth-
er 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:
0 The wait utility was invoked with no operands and all of the ex-
isting background child processes have terminated, or the process
specified by the pid operand exited normally with 0 as its exit
status.
>0 The specified process did not exist and its exit status informa-
tion was not available, or its exit status information was avail-
able and it terminated with a non-zero 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(2)
The wait command is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 ("POSIX.2") compati-
ble.
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