On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 07:31:00 -0600, Stan Marsh wrote: > The problem is that if you use ^Z a lot (as I do) to create jobs and then put > them in the > background, you end up with many jobs as displayed by the "jobs -l" command. > The problem > is that when you then create a new job, it may not get the lowest available > job number.
I would classify this as a new feature request, not a bug fix. That said, I think it's going to be pretty low priority, because most people simply don't use job control this extensively. Most of us switched to tmux or screen.
