NAME

wait − await completion of process

SYNOPSIS

wait

DESCRIPTION

Wait until all processes started with & have completed, and report on abnormal terminations.  Because "sys wait" must be executed in the parent process, the Shell itself executes wait, without creating a new process. 

SEE ALSO

sh (I)

BUGS

After executing wait you are committed to waiting until termination, because interrupts and quits are ignored by all processes concerned.  The only out, if the process does not terminate, is to kill it from another terminal or to hang up.