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Re: wait -n shouldn't collect multiple processes


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: wait -n shouldn't collect multiple processes
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:55:53 +0100
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On Mär 26 2019, Ben Elliston <bje@air.net.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 04:53:02PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
>> "wait  waits  for any job to terminate and returns its exit status"
>> 
>> Doesn't that imply a single job?
>
> Not as clearly as saying "wait waits for a single job to terminate"

Even better, IMHO: "wait waits for the next job to terminate"

Andreas.

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