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Re: backgrounded children forgotten
From: |
Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: backgrounded children forgotten |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:55:30 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051025) |
Aron Griffis wrote:
> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 16
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> When 2 processes are backgrounded inside $(...), bash forgets the first
> one was a child of the shell.
>
> Repeat-By:
> Note this needs to be a script, not cmdline, otherwise $! doesn't work.
>
> $ cat demo
> output=$(
> true &
> pid=$!
> true &
> sleep 1
> wait $pid
> )
I can't reproduce the problem with bash-3.1.
Chet
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