On Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 20:54 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 07:41:43PM +, John Larew wrote:
> > After further examination, the examples with "fg $$" and "fg $!" clearly
> do not bring the subshell into the foreground, as they are evaluated prior
> to the subshells background ex
I was unaware of TMOUT. Now I have a backup as well. Thanks for tolerating my
inexperience.
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 2:54 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On
Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 07:41:43PM +, John Larew wrote:
> After further examination, the examples with "fg $$" and "fg $!" clearly do
> no
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 07:41:43PM +, John Larew wrote:
> After further examination, the examples with "fg $$" and "fg $!" clearly do
> not bring the subshell into the foreground, as they are evaluated prior to
> the subshells background execution.
> I'm trying to bring the subshell to the fo
After further examination, the examples with "fg $$" and "fg $!" clearly do not
bring the subshell into the foreground, as they are evaluated prior to the
subshells background execution.
I'm trying to bring the subshell to the foreground to perform an exit, after a
delay.
Ultimately, it will be
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 01:30:00PM +, John Larew wrote:
> Repeat-By: 1: (sleep 15s; set -m; fg %%; exit ) & 2: (sleep 15s; set -m; fg
> %+; exit ) &
You're using %% or %+ inside a shell where there have NOT been any
background jobs created yet. The sleep 15s runs in the foreground,
because
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:Machine:
x86_64OS: linux-gnuCompiler: gccCompilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -flto=auto
-ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong
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