Re: `wait` triggers an infinite loop when used in an EXIT trap

Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/5/26 2:54 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>      Date:        Mon, 5 Jan 2026 11:50:24 -0500
>      From:        Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
>      Message-ID:  <[email protected]>
> 
>    | The child process, which has an active EXIT trap, has inherited the jobs
>    | array,
> 
> That seems wrong to me - the jobs array (list of children) of the parent
> cannot possibly be the list of children of the child after a fork.

OK. POSIX requires it without any qualifying language. It might be
interesting to see what the austin group has to say.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    [email protected]    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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