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From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
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Subject: Re: When/why does the shell (bash) (sometimes) not re-cycle job IDs?
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 02:29:30 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <v1p1kf$2ake7$1@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Sat, 11 May 2024 22:44:03 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
>> If no job is running, a new job gets 1, otherwise new jobs are numbered
>> consecutively.
>
>Job numbers are reused after it has notified you of termination of the 
>previous job. At least in Bash.

No, they don't.  That's the point.

As Christian notes, they only get reused (starting over at #1) if there
aren't any jobs.

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