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Started by Naim Abdullah
Tue, 25 Jul 1989 08:30
job control bug
Author: Naim Abdullah
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1989 08:30
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1989 08:30
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I have noticed a bug in bash 1.01, where bash loses track of
jobs and one cannot use fg with no arguments, to bring them to
the foreground.
I do not know whether this bug is present in 1.02 since we have
decided to wait till 1.03 (the reports of the core dump on ^D
in 1.02 scared us off 1.02 :-)).
Naim Abdullah
Dept. of EECS,
Northwestern University
Internet: naim@eecs.nwu.edu
Uucp: {oddjob, chinet, att}!nucsrl!naim
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% echo $BASH_VERSION
1.01
% sleep 1000 &
[1] 29525
% sleep 2000 &
[2] 10522
% jobs
[1] Running sleep 1000 &
[2]+ Running sleep 2000 &
% fg %1
sleep 1000
^Z <------------user types a ^Z
[1]+ Stopped sleep 1000
% jobs
[1]+ Stopped sleep 1000
[2]- Running sleep 2000 &
% kill %1
[1]+ Stopped sleep 1000
% jobs
[1]+ Terminated sleep 1000
[2]- Running sleep 2000 &
[1]+ Terminated sleep 1000
% fg
No such job <------------ doesn't find %2
% jobs
[2]- Running sleep 2000 & <-- it is there
% fg
No such job <------------ but is not found!
%
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