Re: 'wait -n' with and without id arguments

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/20/24 8:51 PM, Zachary Santer wrote:

> On item 58:
> My external 'kill' is from Cygwin Utilities, naturally, but its -l
> does what bash's 'kill -l' does in POSIX mode and its -L does
> something similar to what bash's 'kill -l' does in default mode. Could
> POSIX-mode bash 'kill -L' still give the table, instead of doing the
> same thing as 'kill -l'?

I'll think about it. The `-L' option just exists so it's not an error,
plus it's not POSIX, and having it do the same thing as `-l' seems
reasonable.

> Item 3 is also a weird thing to do, but you can turn alias expansion
> right back off in a script with 'shopt -u expand_aliases', so
> whatever.

POSIX doesn't make any distinction between interactive and non-
interactive shells for aliases.

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