Re: waiting for process substitutions - redux

(Went looking back at this thread and still had this draft sitting here.)

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 9:13 PM Zachary Santer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From [4]:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 11:48 AM Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/9/24 6:12 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe a single middle-ground array variable, listing the pids of all
> > > child processes forked (and not waited on) since the last time the
> > > array variable was referenced, would be more easily implemented.
> >
> > Maybe in some future version.
>
> Chet... you know you want to...
>
> Not about to promise a patch, but what would a good name for such a variable be?

And it obviously isn't really meant for people to expand one element
of it at a time, but if they do I think I'd remove that element and
shift all elements at higher indices down one index. Does that make
sense?

> [4] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2024-07/msg00105.html