On Monday, January 29, 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> Anyway... a script writer who has a basic familiarity with wait(2) and
> who reads about "wait -n" will probably assume that wait -n will return
> immediately if a child process has already terminated and hasn't been
> "pseudo-reaped" by a prev
On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 10:26:27PM -0500, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> The man page doesn't make clear that if you don't specify "-n" and do
> supply ids and one of them has already terminated, you'll get its status
> (from the terminated table); the wording suggests that "wait" will
> always *wait for*
Chet Ramey writes:
>> echo "wait -n $pid return code $? @${SECONDS} (BUG)"
>
> The job isn't in the jobs table because you've already been notified about
> it and it's not `new', you get the unknown job error status.
The man page gives a lot of details and I'm trying to digest them into a
structu
Thank you Chet for your thorough reply.
You make a few comments about differences in output (stderr for not
finding a job, notifications for jobs terminating) and in all cases I
believe you are correct. Let's assume job control is disabled.
> >
> > I expect the line ending (BUG) to indicate a re
On 1/22/24 11:30 AM, Steven Pelley wrote:
I've tried:
killing with SIGTERM and SIGALRM
killing from the test script, a subshell, and another terminal. I
don't believe this is related to kill being a builtin.
enabling job control (set -m)
bash versions 4.4.12, 5.2.15, 5.2.21. All linux arm64
On Sunday, January 28, 2024, Kerin Millar wrote:
> To summarise, the behaviour of bash appears to conform with the wording of
> Issue 7 but it may have to change for Issue 8 or a later revision.
>
Yeah I think you're right. In the description of directory operand, Issue 7
says:
>If *directory* i
On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:09:24 +0300
Oğuz wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 5:10 PM wrote:
> > POSIX Programmer's Manual (cd(1p) manpage) says this:
> >
> > [9 unrelated special cases]
> >
> > 10. The cd utility shall then perform actions equivalent to the
> >chdir() functio
On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 5:10 PM wrote:
> POSIX Programmer's Manual (cd(1p) manpage) says this:
>
> [9 unrelated special cases]
>
> 10. The cd utility shall then perform actions equivalent to the
>chdir() function called with curpath as the path argument. If
>the
On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 04:30:48 +0100
j...@jwo.cz wrote:
> My opinion on this is that the ``cd ""'' command should fail with an
> error in this case. The zsh is the only POSIX-compatible or
> POSIX-shell-like shell that was available on machines to which I have
> access that exhibits this behavior.
>
Hello,
(If you don't want to read through this stuff, see the end or grep for
word ``opinion''.)
I started exploring details of file handling on Linux and similar
systems and wondered what ``cd ""'' will do.
I was experimenting with various shells. Let's start with some non-GNU
shells on one Fr
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