Re: (Buglet) job numbers do not get re-used (sometimes)

On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 07:31:00 -0600, Stan Marsh wrote:
> The problem is that if you use ^Z a lot (as I do) to create jobs and then put them in the
> background, you end up with many jobs as displayed by the "jobs -l" command.  The problem
> is that when you then create a new job, it may not get the lowest available job number.

I would classify this as a new feature request, not a bug fix.  That said,
I think it's going to be pretty low priority, because most people simply
don't use job control this extensively.  Most of us switched to tmux
or screen.