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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-03-17 06:59:49 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-03-17 06:59:49 +0000
commit9b2ad4876869b3888c63d328df50fa999058892e (patch)
tree76aa6045e27a97cfa5c5dfb42d0cd8b6c1ff2b99 /bin/ksh
parent091f6b2cd2e14770746b4e99cc9058679c2403e1 (diff)
from zhuk: shell does not wait for command to complete if job run in background
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ksh')
-rw-r--r--bin/ksh/sh.19
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ksh/sh.1 b/bin/ksh/sh.1
index 2168d44fe99..8f1dc44fad9 100644
--- a/bin/ksh/sh.1
+++ b/bin/ksh/sh.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sh.1,v 1.108 2015/03/16 13:18:20 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sh.1,v 1.109 2015/03/17 06:59:48 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 16 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 17 2015 $
.Dt SH 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1133,8 +1133,9 @@ Argument names are assigned to
.Em positional parameters ,
with the command name itself assigned parameter 0.
.It
-The shell waits for the command to complete
-and collects its exit status.
+If the command is not being run in the background,
+the shell waits for it to complete
+and notes its exit status.
.El
.Ss Quoting
Some characters have special meaning to the shell and need