> thanks for reply. agree it's not a
> bug with bash.
>
> i am inclinded to agree with the comments but bash is
> popular and attracts a lot of newbies into scripting - a bit
> of smart 'correction' of their wrong ways would at least
> keep the cpu available for other processes (even a sleep for
>
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:56:49PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Yes, this is the intended behavior.
Thanks for clarifying.
> This is one of the things that
> came out of the discussions among the Posix working group. It also
> matches historical practice.
I searched the archives and found thi
