On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM Zachary Santer <zsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am having a heck of a time trying to duplicate this > behavior any other way.
I'm betting this is some kind of bash-internal race condition. Does seem specific to procsub pids in interactive mode, though.
zsant@Zack2021HPPavilion MSYS ~/repos/bash $ ./bash ~/random/wait-n-and-procsub-interactive + : 'BASH_VERSION=5.3.0(1)-maint' + sleep 2 + : 'pid 113' + : /dev/fd/63 + : 'pid 114' ++ sleep 3 + sleep 5 + : 'pid 115' + sleep 4 + wait -n -p waited_for -- 115 + : waited_for=115 + : SECONDS=5 + set +x zsant@Zack2021HPPavilion MSYS ~/repos/bash $ ./bash -i ~/random/wait-n-and-procsub-interactive + : 'BASH_VERSION=5.3.0(1)-maint' + sleep 2 + : 'pid 118' + : /dev/fd/63 ++ sleep 3 + : 'pid 119' + : 'pid 120' + sleep 4 + sleep 5 + wait -n -p waited_for -- 120 + : waited_for=119 + : SECONDS=4 + set +x
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