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! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]