Waits for all of the specified processes to terminate.
procwait [ -v ] [ ProcessID ] ...
The /proc filesystem provides a mechanism to control processes. It also gives access to information about the current state of processes and threads, but in binary form. The proctools commands provide ascii reports based on some of the available information.
Most of the commands take a list of process IDs or /proc/ProcessID strings as input. The shell expansion /proc/* can therefore be used to specify all processes in the system.
Each of the proctools commands gathers information from /proc for the specified processes and displays it to the user. The proctools commands like procrun and procstop start and stop a process using the /proc interface.
The information gathered by the commands from /proc is a snapshot of the current state of processes, and therefore can vary at any instant except for stopped processes.
The procwait command waits for all of the specified processes to terminate.
| -v | Specifies verbose output. Reports terminations to standard output. |
| ProcessID | Specifies the process id. |
procwait -v 12942The output of this command might look like this:
12942 : terminated, exit status 0
| /proc | Contains the /proc filesystem. |
The proccred command, procfiles command, procflags command, procldd command, procmap command, procrun command, procsig command, procstack command, procstop command, proctree command, procwdx command.