On 7/15/25 6:52 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM John Sidles <jasid...@gmail.com> wrote:I was a pretty big part of that discussion, and this looks broken to me. If 'wait -n' is passed a list of pids, it shouldn't also be waiting for other background processes that weren't passed to it as arguments. Is that what you're saying it's doing?$ set -o posix $ mapfile -t JOBS < <(jobs -rp); $ printf '%s\n' "${!}" 256 $ sleep 10 & wait -f -n -p waited_for "${!}" [1] 257 $ printf '%s\n' "${!}" 257 $ printf '%s\n' "${waited_for}" 256 [1]+ Done Alright, that's definitely what's going on. Chet, this is a bug, man.
Yes, Zack. That's why I posted a patch for it.
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