On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 03:35, Aleksey Covacevice <
aleksey.covacev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Description:
> `wait -n` sometimes returns with status code 127 even though there are
> unwaited-for children.
>
> Repeat-By:
> The following script does finish after a while:
>
> waitjobs() {
> local status=0
> while true; do
> local code=0; wait -n || code=$?
>
I put "local code" out of the loop and the problem went away (or at least
became extremely less likely).
I suspect putting "local" in a loop is doing something strange.
> ((code == 127)) && break
> ((!code)) || status=$code
> done
> return $status
> }
>
> # Eventually finishes:
> while true; do (
> true &
> false &
> waitjobs
> ) && break; done
>
I'm testing with Bash 5.1.4p47
-Martin
