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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:09:53 -0400
From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: wait for non-child PID
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In-Reply-To: <hvoaef56z0x.fsf@serein.m17n.org>; from akr@m17n.org on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 06:06:54PM +0900

> % wait 1
> 
> blocks forever.  (It is interruptible.)
> 
> bash detects that the PID is not child of the shell.

I'm glad that zsh's wait will wait on processes that aren't children of the
shell.  Is there a reason that it shouldn't?