Re: wait -n misses signaled subprocess

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/30/24 4:28 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> It's not a bug, bash has allowed multiple waits for the same pid for
> decades. bash works the way posix says it should for wait (without -n)
> in posix mode.

I think this is a bug in bash posix mode, actually. `wait -n' should
remove the job completely, since it's been `successfully waited for'
and the language you quoted came out of interp 1254 and will be in the
next revision.

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