On 7/31/20 12:43 PM, Oğuz wrote:
> Maybe a minor bug, but certainly a choice. The command substitution keeps
> the jobs list around, since the subshell is supposed to be an exact copy
> of
> the parent, and it's useful to get the output of `jobs' out of command
> substitution.
>
> You just can't expect to do anything with any of those jobs, since the
> command substitution shell is not the parent of any of them. It would
> make sense to have `fg' complain about that.
>
>
> Right, it would. bosh behaves the same way as bash btw.
Behavior is mixed. I put in something that should produce an error when you
try to use `fg' or `bg' in a command substitution without having done
anything to enable job control first.
Chet
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