On 3/25/19 4:05 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:49:32 -0400
> From: Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu>
> Message-ID: <9c536452-4f4e-b309-7a99-e85235364...@case.edu>
>
> Great to see that revised description of how it works, that makes
> much more sense. I also should have tested it.
>
> | `wait -n' is only useful in scripts with job control enabled,
>
> Why is that? It should be useful in any script that has started multiple
> asynchronous jobs, job control (for this) should be irrelevant, I would
> have thought (what's more, so it seems to be).
It probably is, but I've really only tested it with job control enabled.
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