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> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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