WAIT(3F)                             BSD                              WAIT(3F)



NAME
     wait - wait for a process to terminate

SYNOPSIS
     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)