Re: ksh - issue with (non-existing) jobs

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