Jeff Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) since the background job is started by one non-interactive script, and > killed by another non-interactive script, job control does not enter into the > solution.
Without job control you won't get a separate process group. Interactivity and job control are orthogonal concepts. > If the process group of the background job could be returned or queried when > the background job is launched, That's what $! is for. > Please let me know if I am misunderstanding, and thanks for your help. Don't top post. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
