Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-16 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:11:00 +0200 schreef Dr. Volker Zell in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: : > Buzz writes: : > I was hoping for ``our'' man-maintainer, being much more knowledgeable : > about such issues, to be proactive... : > ...If (s)he isn't I'll look into finding the upstream ``m

Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-16 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:01:26 -0600 schreef Eric Blake in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: : According to Buzz on 10/15/2005 9:46 PM: [(possibly stale) bash.1 about somewhere.] : Hmm, I do have /usr/local/man on my manpath, and it did indeed have : man1/bash.1, but I don't know if that affected things. I d

Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Buzz writes: > I was hoping for ``our'' man-maintainer, being much more knowledgeable > about such issues, to be proactive... > ...If (s)he isn't I'll look into finding the upstream ``man''-list. I will forward this issues to the upstream man maintainer. Ciao Volker -- Uns

Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Buzz on 10/15/2005 9:46 PM: > > : > Do you have a copy of bash.1 lying around somewhere? > : > : cygwin man pages are purposefully compressed, so it should be bash.1.gz. > > I'm aware of that. I was WAGging you didn't get the error, hav

Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-15 Thread Buzz
Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:11:53 -0600 schreef Eric Blake in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [Ahhh] : : According to Bas van Gompel on 10/15/2005 2:46 PM: : > : > Did /you/ try it? : : Yes, as bash maintainer, I /did/ try it. However, I didn't realize that : there was a typo in the upstream bash_builtins.1 ma

Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bas van Gompel on 10/15/2005 2:46 PM: > > Did /you/ try it? Yes, as bash maintainer, I /did/ try it. However, I didn't realize that there was a typo in the upstream bash_builtins.1 manpage; I just supposed that the text that was there w

RE: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-15 Thread Stephan Mueller
. stephan(); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bas van Gompel Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 1:46 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"? Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:45:06 + schreef Eri

Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-15 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:45:06 + schreef Eric Blake in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [What the...] : > I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I want to : > (using bash) : : Did you try 'man wait'? That would have pointed you to 'man bash', where Did /you/ try it? It complains

Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Siegfried Heintze wrote: I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I want to (using bash) (1) How do I wait for multiple children and wake up when the first one dies? (2) Examine the status code of the dead child and possibly spawn a new one? Where is the documentat

Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
> I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I want to > (using bash) Did you try 'man wait'? That would have pointed you to 'man bash', where as a bash builtin, wait is properly documented. Also, 'info bash' will tell you about bash builtins, or you can try 'help wait' for

Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

2005-10-15 Thread Siegfried Heintze
I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I want to (using bash) (1) How do I wait for multiple children and wake up when the first one dies? (2) Examine the status code of the dead child and possibly spawn a new one? Where is the documentation on wait? Thanks, Siegfried