Re: wait -n shouldn't collect multiple processes

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/25/19 4:05 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:49:32 -0400
>     From:        Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
>     Message-ID:  <9c536452-4f4e-b309-7a99-e85235364a3a@case.edu>
> 
> Great to see that revised description of how it works, that makes
> much more sense.   I also should have tested it.
> 
>   | `wait -n' is only useful in scripts with job control enabled,
> 
> Why is that?   It should be useful in any script that has started multiple
> asynchronous jobs, job control (for this) should be irrelevant, I would
> have thought (what's more, so it seems to be).

It probably is, but I've really only tested it with job control enabled.

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