On 7/14/25 1:32 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
     Date:        Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:34:12 -0400
     From:        Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu>
     Message-ID:  <6a02a36f-d31d-4816-8988-5a4ccf960...@case.edu>


   | The short story is that `wait -n' now returns the status of any process
   | that's completed and hasn't been waited for yet, just like `wait'. It's
   | not restricted to processes that terminates after it's invoked.

That's fine, and as it should be.   But

   | It does this even when it's given a list of pid or job arguments,

That makes no sense at all.

I agree. That's why I said it was a problem, offered a workaround, and
provided a patch to fix it.

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