Re: unable to wait on completed job

[Greg Klanderman <gak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> On November 30, 2009 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Note that AFAICT, even with the operation as supported by bash, you are
> only guaranteed access to the exit status of the most recently started
> asynchronous job; so it's not much help in handling multiple parallel
> tasks.

Yeah that's not all that useful.. conceptually at least it seems you
could keep the job table entry around with the exit status for
completed jobs until the job/pid is waited for or until 'jobs' is run
maybe?

> If you don't care about the exit status

"Don't care" is a little strong; more like "can deal"..

thanks,
Greg