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Article #928Re: Bug or feature?
From: Jun Hamano
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 05:09
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 05:09
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In article <9208271420.AA01970.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes:
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> for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do sleep 100; done
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> 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.
The BSD sh (ash) and zsh both work the same way. ksh makes the entire
loop unstoppable.
Chet
If you say "for i in 0 1 2; do sleep 100; done &; fg" a ^Z stops
the whole thing. Maybe you can add a code to place the topmost
loop into a separate process if bash is running interactively?
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