On 10/11/16 10:14 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 1. the script to reproduce
> bash-4.4$ cat t.sh
> (cd /tmp && sleep 20) &
>
> echo "end"
>
>
> 2. run it
> bash-4.4$ bash t.sh
> end
>
> 3. script end, but there is a new forked script.
> bash-4.4$ ps -ef | grep t.sh
> 501 50268 1 0 10:09AM ttys015 0:00.00 bash t.sh
> 501 50275 50181 0 10:10AM ttys015 0:00.00 grep t.sh
>
>
>
> question:
> when using sh -> dash, It will not fork before subshell, what's the different?
>
> why bash bahavior like this? is that a bug?
It's not a bug; it's an opportunity for optimization. It's like this
because it hasn't come up as a performance problem. I'll take a look
at it. There are probably several opportunities like this.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
