Dear zsh workers, I'ld like to report a bug originally filed in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150541 which is still present in the latest version, 5.0.7 Title: zsh wait builtin shows an error and doesn't propagate exit code for a finished child process Description of problem: When a child process is started, and finished before a call to wait, an error is signaled. Also the exit code for wait is 1, where it should be the exit code of the child process Version-Release number of selected component: zsh-4.3.10-7 (rhel6, x86_64) zsh-5.0.2-7 (rhel7, x86_64) zsh 5.0.7 (f21 rawhide, x86_64) zsh 5.0.7 from source How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: Run the following script with zsh (or with zsh in ksh emulation mode): #!/bin/ksh sh -c "echo done" & pid1=$! sleep 1 wait $pid1 echo "rc: $?" sh -c "exit 3" & pid2=$! sleep 1 wait $pid2 echo "rc: $?" Actual results: $ zsh test.sh done test.sh:wait:5: pid 6156 is not a child of this shell rc: 1 test.sh:wait:11: pid 6159 is not a child of this shell rc: 1 Expected results (also seen when running the script with bash or mksh): $ zsh test.sh done rc: 0 rc: 3 Kind regards Tim Speetjens