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Re: wait for non-child PID

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From: Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tanaka Akira <akr@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: wait for non-child PID
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:09:53 -0400
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> % wait 1
> 
> blocks forever.  (It is interruptible.)
> 
> bash detects that the PID is not child of the shell.

I'm glad that zsh's wait will wait on processes that aren't children of the
shell.  Is there a reason that it shouldn't?

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