On 1/29/24 7:54 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Jan 29 2024, Robert Elz wrote:

I always wondered why the option was 'n'

n = next?

Yes: the original implementation polled the non-terminated background jobs
and returned when one of them exited.

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