[sv-ec] blocking statement

What is the blocking statement? ie used in below definition. There is no
definition of blocking statement in LRM.
 
"The parent process continues to execute concurrently with all the processes
spawned by the fork. The spawned processes do not start executing until the
parent thread executes a blocking statement."

DANiel

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