Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"? Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:10:23 -0700 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <101220051545.21471.434D2FA800096FCD000053DF22007613940A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <5137116.1129395321861.JavaMail.SYSTEM@CCC-NOVA1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4 (Windows/20050908) In-Reply-To: <5137116.1129395321861.JavaMail.SYSTEM@CCC-NOVA1> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 documentation on wait? Wait's a builtin so the documentation is in the bash(1) man page. -- I like kids, but I don't think I could eat a whole one. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/