Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ai.mit.edu!roland From: roland@ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: `wait' does not work Message-ID: <8906220020.AA09758@hobbes.ai.mit.edu> Date: 22 Jun 89 00:20:44 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 7 I'm running 4.3 BSD on a Sony NEWS (68020). Bash 0.99. The `wait' command does not appear to work. If I have a command running in the background and I say "wait", it returns immediately, without waiting for the command.