On 11/20/19 9:54 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
Date:Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:51:12 -0300
From:Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
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| And two related features requests: 1) It seems that pids args are ignored
| by wait when '-n' is specified. However, it would be a nic
On 11/19/19 2:51 PM, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote:
Hello,
Normally 'wait -n' will return the exit code of background process when
they terminate before wait is runned. However, when bg processes and 'wait
-n' runs inside a command substitution, bash loses control of bg process as
soon as they
Date:Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:51:12 -0300
From:Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
Message-ID:
| And two related features requests: 1) It seems that pids args are ignored
| by wait when '-n' is specified. However, it would be a nice add_on to use
| the list of pids as a filt
Behavior of wait -n differs on interactive and non-interactive sessions
though, maybe this really is a bug
$ bash -ic '( ( sleep 0.1; exit 13 ) & sleep 0; wait -n; echo $? )'
0
$ bash -c '( ( sleep 0.1; exit 13 ) & sleep 0; wait -n; echo $? )'
13
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:01 PM Oğ
This seems more like a race condition, see:
$ f() { ( sleep 0.1; exit 13 ) & "$@"; wait -n; echo $?; }
$
$ f sleep 0.0
[1] 30612
[1]+ Exit 13 ( sleep 0.1; exit 13 )
13
$ f sleep 0.2
[1] 30617
[1]+ Exit 13 ( sleep 0.1; exit 13 )
