Re: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Buzz writes: I was hoping for ``our'' man-maintainer, being much more knowledgeable about such issues, to be proactive... ...If (s)he isn't I'll look into finding the upstream ``man''-list. I will forward this issues to the upstream man maintainer. Ciao Volker --

Re: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-16 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:01:26 -0600 schreef Eric Blake in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : According to Buzz on 10/15/2005 9:46 PM: [(possibly stale) bash.1 about somewhere.] : Hmm, I do have /usr/local/man on my manpath, and it did indeed have : man1/bash.1, but I don't know if that affected things. I

Re: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-16 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:11:00 +0200 schreef Dr. Volker Zell in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : Buzz writes: : I was hoping for ``our'' man-maintainer, being much more knowledgeable : about such issues, to be proactive... : ...If (s)he isn't I'll look into finding the upstream

Re: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I want to (using bash) Did you try 'man wait'? That would have pointed you to 'man bash', where as a bash builtin, wait is properly documented. Also, 'info bash' will tell you about bash builtins, or you can try 'help wait' for

Re: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Siegfried Heintze wrote: I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I want to (using bash) (1) How do I wait for multiple children and wake up when the first one dies? (2) Examine the status code of the dead child and possibly spawn a new one? Where is the

Re: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-15 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:45:06 + schreef Eric Blake in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [What the...] : I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I want to : (using bash) : : Did you try 'man wait'? That would have pointed you to 'man bash', where Did /you/ try it? It complains

RE: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-15 Thread Stephan Mueller
. stephan(); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bas van Gompel Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 1:46 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Where is documentation on bash wait? Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:45:06 + schreef Eric Blake

Re: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bas van Gompel on 10/15/2005 2:46 PM: Did /you/ try it? Yes, as bash maintainer, I /did/ try it. However, I didn't realize that there was a typo in the upstream bash_builtins.1 manpage; I just supposed that the text that was there

Re: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-15 Thread Buzz
Op Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:11:53 -0600 schreef Eric Blake in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Ahhh] : : According to Bas van Gompel on 10/15/2005 2:46 PM: : : Did /you/ try it? : : Yes, as bash maintainer, I /did/ try it. However, I didn't realize that : there was a typo in the upstream bash_builtins.1

Re: Where is documentation on bash wait?

2005-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Buzz on 10/15/2005 9:46 PM: : Do you have a copy of bash.1 lying around somewhere? : : cygwin man pages are purposefully compressed, so it should be bash.1.gz. I'm aware of that. I was WAGging you didn't get the error, having a