Re: waiting for process substitutions

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/20/24 10:47 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:

> I feel like that's most of the way there. I would argue 'wait -n'
> without arguments should include the "last-executed process
> substitution, if its process id is the same as $!," in the set of
> running child processes it'll wait for, at least. Just for the sake of
> consistency with 'wait' without arguments.

You could have looked at the actual commit, which contains the change log,
which says

- wait_for_any_job: check for any terminated procsubs as well as any
  terminated background jobs

wait_for_any_job is the function that backs `wait -n' without arguments.
Right now the code that restricts it to the last procsub is commented out.

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