Re: builtin man page for wait omits information from SIGNALS

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/15/22 1:46 AM, AA via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>           I've already submited a PR at 
> https://github.com/gitGNU/gnu_bash/pulls but I'm not sure that's the right 
> place. 

Thanks for the report. That's not the right place; it has nothing to do
with bash or the GNU project.


>              When bash is waiting for an asynchronous command via the wait 
> builtin,
>               the reception of a signal for which a trap has been set will 
> cause
>               the wait builtin to return immediately with an exit status 
> greater
>               than 128, immediately after which the trap is executed.

I'll add something to the description of wait describing this exit status.


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