Re: wait -n shouldn't collect multiple processes

[Ben Elliston]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 11:29:41AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:

> > My goal is to run a small process pool where upon one process
> > completes, another one is started immediately. If I start (say) 10
> > processes and then wait on the first, I may have chosen the longest
> > running process.
> 
> OK. This sounds like a candidate for a SIGCHLD trap. You're not interested
> in a particular process's exit status, so you can keep a count of running
> processes and start new ones out of a trap handler.

Ah, but I *am* interested in exit status. Imagine trying to implement
something akin to 'make -j' in bash. Make will stop if any of the
child processes fail.

Cheers, Ben

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