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From: Byron Rakitzis <byron>
To: rc
Subject: apid as a list
Message-Id: <91Aug19.125506cdt.22531@archone.tamu.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1991 12:54:58 -0500

It's been suggested that $apid should be a list of all backgrounded jobs,
and that as soon as rc's wait builtin receives the exit status of an exiting
child, the appropriate $apid list entry should be removed.

I have certainly noticed myself writing code like:

foo &
apids=$apid
bar &
apids=($apid $apids)

...

kill $apids

I will probably implement this in a trial fashion, and ignore it if it is
too much work, but it doesn't look like it would be too hard. Any comments?