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Date:      Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:14:10 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wait(1) utility -- where is it? 
Message-ID:  <19990121111411.14787.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <19990120154631.A97871@dan.emsphone.com>  of Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:46:31 CST
References:  <199901201829.NAA07360@xxx.video-collage.com>  <19990120154631.A97871@dan.emsphone.com> 

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> There cannot be a /usr/bin/wait, since the wait() syscall only lets a
> process wait on its children.  It has to be a shell builtin.

Which makes one wonder why most (all?) flavours of BSD have had
a man page for wait(1) for so long.  Seems like it could do with
a clean up.

-- 
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>


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