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From: DALL
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:13

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If you do

  for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do sleep 100; done

and then hit ^Z, only the sleep gets backgrounded, not the for loop.
Repeat the ^Z's and you end up with 10 seperate background processes.
This is presumably because the for loop is not a seperate process,
still, after a user on my system managed to create 13 simultaneous big
processes this way, I am wondering if other shells with job control
work the same way.

--
Ian Dall          I'm not into isms, but hedonism is the most
                  harmless I can think of. -- Phillip Adams

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