On 6/29/20 4:33 PM, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> Dear maintainer,
>
> I believe, that the current behaviour of GNU Bash:
>
> $ command cat &
> [1] 3831
> $ ps --pid $! --ppid $!
> PID TTY TIME CMD
> 3831 pts/3 00:00:00 bash
> 3832 pts/3 00:00:00 cat
>
> is problematic. Namely it is:
>
> 1) unexpected, as (a) it does not seem to be documented, (b) itʼs
> counter-intuitive and (c) other bourne-like shells (busybox ash, dash, ksh93,
> mksh, zsh) does not do that;
It's an opportunity for optimization, not a bug, since the results are
correct.
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