Children's exit() status

[James Blasius]

It appears from the manual (though I won't swear by it) that a
child process can't go away until it's waited for - either by
the parent, or process 1 if the parent goes away.  So it would
seem "wait" would give you thirty responses.

The manual does say that if there are no children to wait for,
it will fail - so you won't be stuck waiting forever (like you
might if you do  "alarm" wrong).

James Blasius
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