On 7/31/24 11:40 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
Thanks for your updates to the manual."Wait for each specified child process id and return the termination status of the last id." Would it be better to say "Wait for each specified child process id and return the termination status of the last id argument," to emphasize that it's not returning the termination status of the last process to terminate from among those whose ids are listed?
That's a pretty tortured reading.
"Otherwise, the return status is the exit status of the last id." Is that correct? The final paragraph is in reference to 'wait -n', right? It could return the exit status of any one of the processes whose ids are listed.
It is not. That language predates `wait -n'. The behavior of `wait -n' is
completely specified in one paragraph.
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