From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: (Buglet) job numbers do not get re-used (sometimes)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:24:28 -0400
>On 8/15/26 9:31 AM, Stan Marsh wrote:
>This is in the category of "not really a bug, but just annoying" and
>probably also in "It's been around for so long, that it is probably
>been elevated into a feature".
>I don't consider it a bug. It would be very low priority as a new feature
>request.
Oh, it is clearly a bug, but both of the following are true:
1) As stipulated in the OP (albeit indirectly), it is very mild
and obviously of low priority to fix. And, as noted by one
responder, people don't use job control much nowadays anyway, so,
again, no worries.
2) Responders on this thread have all fallen into "circle the
wagons" mode in their replies. That's OK. No worries there.
In fact, it is probably the case that when, many decades ago, job
control was first being designed and coded - probably by some Berkeley
freshman late at night - it was realized that it would be slightly
easier to code it this way, so a pop decision was made to do it that
way, and it has been thus ever since.
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