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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-03 05:40:04 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-03 05:40:04 +0000
commit697ed2bbf308266a84175eb15bcfdebebd5b696b (patch)
tree3438e4cca4c8b8854312ffa9a03352150e381c0a /share/man/man1/wait.1
parent1d5da66c9b2948d214295da09d3ca12a0b836dd3 (diff)
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diff --git a/share/man/man1/wait.1 b/share/man/man1/wait.1
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--- a/share/man/man1/wait.1
+++ b/share/man/man1/wait.1
@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ waits until that process has completed and consumes its
status information, without consuming the status information
of any other process.
.Pp
-If a pid operand is specified that is not the process ID of
+If a
+.Ar pid
+operand is specified that is not the process ID of
a child background process that still exists,
.Nm wait
exits
@@ -78,7 +80,8 @@ The
.Nm wait
utility was invoked with no operands and
all of the existing background child processes have
-terminated, or the process specified by the pid
+terminated, or the process specified by the
+.Ar pid
operand exited normally with 0 as its exit status.
.It \&>\&0
The specified process did not exist and its exit