> > This was reported as a bug against bash-3.2. > > Cool. Is there any hint/doc/faq/how-to implement old behaviour, i.e. wait > until all children of current bash process will exit?
I imagine a loop on wait until it returns because there are no unwaited-for children. You can detect the "interrupted" exit status and behave accordingly. I'll probably make this posix-mode-specific behavior or add an option for it in the next version. > P.S. I've not seen this information in 'help wait' or 'man bash' - is this > current 'correct' behaviour is documented? No. I'm not able to put everything from the Posix spec into a man page. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/