UNTITLED() LOCAL UNTITLED() NAME pwait -- wait for processes to terminate SYNOPSIS pwait [-v] pid ... DESCRIPTION The pwait utility will wait until each of the given processes has termi- nated. The following option is available: -v Print the exit status when each process terminates. DIAGNOSTICS The pwait utility returns 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. Invalid pids elicit a warning message but are otherwise ignored. SEE ALSO kill(1), pkill(1), ps(1), wait(1), kqueue(2) NOTES pwait is not a substitute for the wait(1) builtin as it will not clean up any zombies or state in the parent process. HISTORY A pwait command first appeared in SunOS 5.8. FreeBSD 8.1 November 1, 2009 PWAIT(1)
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