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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: Siegfried Heintze <siegfried AT heintze DOT com>,
   "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Where is documentation on bash "wait"?
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:45:06 +0000
Message-Id: <101520051745.25630.43514022000160940000641E22007614380A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> 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 a short synopsis.

> 
> (1) How do I wait for multiple children and wake up when the first one dies?

wait

> 
> (2) Examine the status code of the dead child and possibly spawn a new one?

I don't know of any way in POSIX to do this, but it is not really specific to
cygwin, so you might try asking a more appropriate mailing list.

--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer



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