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+# We create two child processes.
+2.times do
+  fork do
+    # Both processes exit immediately.
+    abort "Finished!"
+  end
+end
+
+# The parent process waits for the first process, then sleeps for 5 seconds. 
+# In the meantime the second child process has exited and is no 
+# longer running.
+puts Process.wait
+sleep 5
+
+# The parent process asks to wait once again, and amazingly enough, the second
+# process' exit information has been queued up and is returned here.
+puts Process.wait
+