On 7/14/25 10:52 PM, John Sidles wrote:

Prior to bash 5.3, this functionality was provided (even in posix mode) by 'wait -n "${PIDS[@]}";'' ...  this bash idiom worked GREAT.

Now, in bash 5.3, this 'wait -n' functionality still works fine ... EXCEPT in posix-mode.  Huh?

I sent a patch to fix it and offered a workaround for the time being.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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