From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18342 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2000 09:09:20 -0000 Received: from ns2.primenet.com.au (HELO primenet.com.au) (?2W9XiXCEcNx+5HjKuEeuG3WFwiVECui7?@203.24.36.3) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 26 Jul 2000 09:09:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 5965 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2000 09:09:15 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns2.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 26 Jul 2000 09:09:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 17912 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2000 09:07:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12380 Received: (qmail 17905 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2000 09:07:48 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: wait for non-child PID MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Tanaka Akira Date: 26 Jul 2000 18:06:54 +0900 Message-ID: User-Agent: T-gnus/6.14.1 (based on Gnus v5.8.3) (revision 16) SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) Emacs/20.6 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) I heard that wait has a problem if the argument is non-child PID. For example, % wait 1 blocks forever. (It is interruptible.) bash detects that the PID is not child of the shell. bash-2.04$ wait 1 bash: wait: pid 1 is not a child of this shell -- Tanaka Akira