Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-5 Severity: important Since version 0.5.5.1-5 the inbuild wait command of dash waits only for the first asychronous command to to complete. To reproduce consider the following batch file xxx:
#----------------------- { sleep 2 ; echo five ; } & { sleep 4 ; echo ten ; } & wait echo ok #----------------------- We have then zieg...@zertz:/tmp$ dash xxx two ok zieg...@zertz:/tmp$ four and zieg...@zertz:/tmp$ bash xxx two four ok zieg...@zertz:/tmp$ -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: lang=de...@euro, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 3.2.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg 1.15.7.1 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * dash/sh: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org