From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 21 03:21:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21632 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 03:21:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA21333 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 03:21:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 14788 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Jan 1999 11:14:11 -0000 Message-ID: <19990121111411.14787.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:14:10 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Dan Nelson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wait(1) utility -- where is it? References: <199901201829.NAA07360@xxx.video-collage.com> <19990120154631.A97871@dan.emsphone.com> In-reply-to: <19990120154631.A97871@dan.emsphone.com> of Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:46:31 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message