Jeff Chua wrote:
> Revisited. The previous reply to your example works fine for interactive
> shell. But for a script (non-interactive shell), the example does not
> work the same. Job status are always reported even with "set +m" in the
> script. ...
Right. This is part of my previous answer, which you quoted:
>> Bash and historical versions of sh report the status of jobs in a script
>> that exit as the result of being killed by a signal. I'm not going to
>> change that.
This functionality predates and is independent of job control. Shells
back to at least the original Bourne shell (7th Edition) have done it.
> Is there another alternative to do this? "disown" would not work for
> situation where "wait" is used to wait for child to finish ...
Sure. Since the status messages are written to stderr, you can save
file descriptor 2 and temporarily (or permanently, depending on your
needs) redirect it to /dev/null.
Chet
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