On 3/26/19 8:12 AM, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:55:53 +0100 > From: Andreas Schwab <sch...@suse.de> > Message-ID: <mvmimw6t0wm....@suse.de> > > | Even better, IMHO: "wait waits for the next job to terminate" > > Something should allow for there being no waiting involved at all > if some job has already terminated but has not been waited for.
Why? `wait -n' collects the exit statuses of terminated jobs one at a time. It's not really important to detail how much time is spent waiting. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/