On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, Muhammed Mahmood via Bug reports for the
GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote:
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> Ideally, there should be a wait -e which waits for every child process but
> exits on the first non zero exit code received.
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`while wait -n; do :; done' already does that
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Oğuz
Hi my name is Muhammed,
I wanted to ask why there isn't an option for wait that will take no jobspec or
pid but fail if any of the backgrounded processes fail.
This kind of functionality does not seem intuitive.
When waiting for a specific pid, wait will return the exit code of that
process. Maki