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Re: possible bash bug bringing job. to foreground
From: |
John Larew |
Subject: |
Re: possible bash bug bringing job. to foreground |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:31:43 +0000 (UTC) |
I was unaware of TMOUT. Now I have a backup as well. Thanks for tolerating my
inexperience.
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 2:54 PM, Greg Wooledge<greg@wooledge.org> wrote: On
Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 07:41:43PM +0000, John Larew wrote:
> After further examination, the examples with "fg $$" and "fg $!" clearly do
> not bring the subshell into the foreground, as they are evaluated prior to
> the subshells background execution.
> I'm trying to bring the subshell to the foreground to perform an exit, after
> a delay.
> Ultimately, it will be used as part of a terminal emulator inactivity timeout.
Bash already has a TMOUT variable which will cause an interactive shell
to exit after a specified length of inactivity. Is that sufficient?
If not, how does your desired solution need to differ from TMOUT?