Debian Bug report logs - #714743
[bash] wait: specify that you can only wait for child PIDs

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Török Edwin <edwin@etorok.net>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [bash] wait: specify that you can only wait for child PIDs

Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:14:45 +0300

Package: bash
Version: 4.2+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

--- Please enter the report below this line. ---
$ wait 1
bash: wait: pid 1 is not a child of this shell

The manpage of bash, dash and wait should mention that the PID has to be a child of the shell.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 3.10.0

Debian Release: jessie/sid
  500 unstable        ftp.ro.debian.org 
  500 stable          security.debian.org 
  500 stable          ftp.ro.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends           (Version) | Installed
===========================-+-============
base-files      (>= 2.1.12) | 7.2
debianutils       (>= 2.15) | 4.3.4


Recommends                (Version) | Installed
===================================-+-================
bash-completion     (>= 20060301-0) | 1:2.0-1


Suggests      (Version) | Installed
=======================-+-===========
bash-doc                | 

Message #10 received at 714743@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

To: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>

Cc: Török Edwin <edwin@etorok.net>, 714743@bugs.debian.org, bug-bash@gnu.org

Subject: Re: [bash] wait: specify that you can only wait for child PIDs

Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 18:31:15 -0700

Hi,

Török Edwin wrote[1]:

> $ wait 1
> bash: wait: pid 1 is not a child of this shell
>
> The manpage of bash, dash and wait should mention that the PID has to be a child of the shell.

How about this patch?  (Should be applicable to the "devel" branch by
saving this message in mbox format and applying with "git am --scissors".)

-- >8 --
Subject: bash.1: processes waited for by "wait" are children

Reported-by: Török Edwin <edwin@etorok.net>
---
Thanks,
Jonathan

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/714743

 doc/bash.1 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1
index fb4795a..58da8ce 100644
--- a/doc/bash.1
+++ b/doc/bash.1
@@ -10071,7 +10071,7 @@ subsequently reset.  The exit status is true unless a
 is readonly.
 .TP
 \fBwait\fP [\fB\--n\fP] [\fIn ...\fP]
-Wait for each specified process and return its termination status.
+Wait for each specified child process and return its termination status.
 Each
 .I n
 may be a process

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