NAME

pwait — wait for processes to terminate

SYNOPSIS

pwait

[ -v] pid ...

DESCRIPTION

The pwait utility will wait until each of the given processes has terminated.

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.