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diff --git a/share/man/man1/wait.1 b/share/man/man1/wait.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09e12a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man1/wait.1 @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)wait.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 +.\" +.Dd June 5, 1993 +.Dt WAIT 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm wait +.Nd await process completion +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm wait +.Op Ar pid +.Sh DESCRIPTION +If invoked with no arguments, the +.Nm wait +utility waits until +all existing child processes in the background +have terminated. +.Pp +Available operands: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Ar pid +If a +.Ar pid +operand is specified, and it is the process ID of a +background child process that still exists, the +.Nm wait +utility +waits until that process has completed and consumes its +status information, without consuming the status information +of any other process. +.Pp +If a pid operand is specified that is not the process ID of +a child background process that still exists, +.Nm wait +exits +without waiting for any processes to complete. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm wait +utility exits with one of the following values: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It \&0 +The +.Nm wait +utility was invoked with no operands and +all of the existing background child processes have +terminated, or the process specified by the pid +operand exited normally with 0 as its exit status. +.It \&>\&0 +The specified process did not exist and its exit +status information was not available, or the specified +process existed or its exit status information +was available, and it terminated with a non-zero +exit status. +.El +.Pp +If the specified process terminated abnormally due +to the receipt of a signal, the exit status +information of +.Nm wait +contains that termination status as +well. +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Nm wait +command is expected to be +.St -p1003.2 +compatible. |