Last year, I wrote a diary entry mentioning that I'd hacked a better mode of job termination notification into bash(1).

I've just got round to fixing the major bug in this patch, putting it up on the web, and mailing the bash maintainers about it. So if anyone who hasn't already got a copy of this is interested in giving it a go, you can get it from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bash-notify/.

Oddly enough, when I went back and checked my original diary entry on the subject, I was rather startled to find that it was actually written on 1st July – precisely a year ago today. That wasn't even intentional! How silly.