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@@ -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