Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> writes: > i wish there was a way to use `wait` that didn't block until all the pids > returned. maybe a dedicated option, or a shopt to enable this, or a new > command. > > for example, if i launched 10 jobs in the background, i usually want to wait > for the first one to exit so i can queue up another one, not wait for all of > them.
If you set -m you can trap on SIGCHLD while waiting. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
