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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ksh - issue with (non-existing) jobs
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 01:25:22 +0100
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On 26.01.2025 01:05, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 16:12:43 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> 
>> Any idea what's going on and how to get rid of those undead jobs?
> 
> Does the “wait” command help?

Good idea. - But I cannot check any more; I meanwhile closed and
re-opened the shell window instance to get rid of it.

I'd guess, though, that it wouldn't have helped; 'wait' is (as
'kill') a built-in in my ksh, and 'kill' reported "no such job",
so I suppose a very early job-existence-test already failed. In
case that happens again I try to remember trying 'wait' as well.

Still curious how that happened. - Must be a bug in my ksh93u+m.
But obviously rare; I don't recall whether I've seen that before.

Janis