On 5/18/23 12:16 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
If there is silent reaping going on (other than “wait -n” or “trap ...
SIGCHLD”) shouldn't the exit status and pid of each silently reaped process
be retained in a queue that “wait -n“ can extract from, in order to
maintain the reasonable expected semantics? Arguably this queue should be
shared with “fg” when job control is enabled.
There is always `silent reaping' going on. This is a red herring.
The problem was a race condition in the `wait -n' code.
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