Re: nonsensical error message when backgrounding invocation of wait builtin

2009-12-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Steve Newcomb on 12/30/2009 7:29 PM: > r...@zorba:/home/srn# /tmp/z.sh > here we are! > pidOfBackgroundProcess=20944 > /tmp/z.sh: line 10: wait: pid 20944 is not a child of this shell > > (But, of course, pid 20944 *was* in fact a child o

Re: nonsensical error message when backgrounding invocation of wait builtin

2009-12-30 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/30/09 9:29 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: x86_64 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' > -DCO

nonsensical error message when backgrounding invocation of wait builtin

2009-12-30 Thread Steve Newcomb
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACK

Re: strange 'delayed' aliases

2009-12-30 Thread Jonathan Claggett
> > There is certainly unexpected behavior going on here. I'll take a closer > look, but fixes will have to wait until bash-4.2 (or a patch to bash-4.1 > if the problem is widespread). 4.2 would be fine but not before please! I'm still scheming how best put this feature to "good" use in my "frie