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