wait does not wait in bash 1.01

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1 total messages Started by Naim Abdullah Sun, 09 Jul 1989 06:31

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Author: Naim Abdullah
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1989 06:31

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One of our bash users pointed out that the bash builtin "wait"
does not wait for the background processes to terminate. I checked
in builtins.c and noticed that the function wait_builtin() was empty!

Repeat By:

bash> sleep 100000 &
bash> wait

Fix:

Implement wait_builtin() in builtins.c ?


		      Naim Abdullah
		      Dept. of EECS,
		      Northwestern University

		      Internet: naim@eecs.nwu.edu
		      Uucp: {oddjob, chinet, att}!nucsrl!naim

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