(Went looking back at this thread and still had this draft sitting here.) On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 9:13 PM Zachary Santer <[email protected]> wrote: > > From [4]: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 11:48 AM Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 7/9/24 6:12 AM, Zachary Santer wrote: > > > > > > Maybe a single middle-ground array variable, listing the pids of all > > > child processes forked (and not waited on) since the last time the > > > array variable was referenced, would be more easily implemented. > > > > Maybe in some future version. > > Chet... you know you want to... > > Not about to promise a patch, but what would a good name for such a variable > be?
And it obviously isn't really meant for people to expand one element of it at a time, but if they do I think I'd remove that element and shift all elements at higher indices down one index. Does that make sense? > [4] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2024-07/msg00105.html
