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-rw-r--r--man2/wait.22
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diff --git a/man2/wait.2 b/man2/wait.2
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--- a/man2/wait.2
+++ b/man2/wait.2
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ A state change is considered to be: the child terminated;
the child was stopped by a signal; or the child was resumed by a signal.
In the case of a terminated child, performing a wait allows
the system to release the resources associated with the child;
-if a wait is not performed, then terminated the child remains in
+if a wait is not performed, then the terminated child remains in
a "zombie" state (see NOTES below).
If a child has already changed state, then these calls return immediately.