Man Page wait.3f

NAME

     wait - wait for a process to terminate

SYNOPSIS

     integer*4 function wait (status)
     integer*4 status

DESCRIPTION

     wait causes its caller to be suspended  until  a  signal  is
     received,  or  until  one of its child processes terminates.
     If any child has terminated since the last wait,  return  is
     immediate;  if  there  are  no children, return is immediate
     with an error code.

     If the returned value is positive, it is the process  ID  of
     the  child,  and  status  is  its  termination  status  (see
     wait(2)).  If the returned value  is  negative,  it  is  the
     negation of a system error code.

FILES

     libF77.a

SEE ALSO

     wait(2), signal(3F), kill(3F), perror(3F)