Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The current development version of bash-3.1 behaves as I think you want:

[demonstration of desired behavior snipped]

> It's an extension.  Bash is allowed to discard the status of
> terminated processes after the calling shell script obtains them via
> wait, and bash-3.0 does so when job control is not active.

Hm, okay... I got a different impression from POSIX, but I probably
missed a nuance somewhere.  At any rate, thanks for addressing the
issue!

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