On Thu, 18 May 2023 at 02:13, Chet Ramey wrote:
> It's possible for the shell to reap both background jobs before `wait -n'
> is called. The underlying function returns < 0 when there aren't any
> unwaited-for jobs, which the wait builtin translates to 127.
>
I know that some platforms (used to?
On 5/16/23 12:10 PM, Igor Todorovski wrote:
Hi there,
I’m looking for advice on the best way to submit a patch to enable support of
z/OS.
We have a few patches here which I will be cleaning up for the next few days:
https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools/bashport/tree/main/patches
You can just sen
On 5/16/23 1:35 PM, Aleksey Covacevice wrote:
Bash Version: 5.1
Patch Level: 16
Release Status: release
Description:
`wait -n` sometimes returns with status code 127 even though there are
unwaited-for children.
There are not. That's why `wait -n' returns 127.
Repeat-By:
The following scrip
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 12:21 PM Oğuz İsmail Uysal <
oguzismailuy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This boils down to the following
>
> true &
> false &
> wait -n
>
> There is no guarantee that `wait -n' will report the status of `true',
> the shell may acquire the status of `false' first.
Date:Wed, 17 May 2023 17:23:21 +1000
From:Martin D Kealey
Message-ID:
| I suspect putting "local" in a loop is doing something strange.
"local" is an executable statement, not a declaration (shell really
has none of the latter) - every time it is executed it cre
On 5/17/23 3:27 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 20:20, Oğuz İsmail Uysal
wrote:
On 5/16/23 8:35 PM, Aleksey Covacevice wrote:
[original code elided as it's been mangled by line-wrapping]
This boils down to the following
true &
false &
w
On 5/16/23 8:35 PM, Aleksey Covacevice wrote:
waitjobs() { local status=0 while true; do local code=0; wait -n ||
code=$? ((code == 127)) && break ((!code)) || status=$code done return
$status } # Eventually finishes: while true; do ( true & false &
waitjobs ) && break; done
This boils down t
On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 03:35, Aleksey Covacevice <
aleksey.covacev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Description:
> `wait -n` sometimes returns with status code 127 even though there are
> unwaited-for children.
>
> Repeat-By:
> The following script does finish after a while:
>
> waitjobs() {
> local sta
