On 2019-07-18 14:53, Richard Hector wrote:
On 18/07/19 1:29 PM, John Crawley wrote:
However, try running in a terminal:
echo $$
exec
#Then, in the new terminal:
echo $$
The two PIDs are different! (or were here)
Yes. You exec'd a terminal, which then started a shell. You'll probably
find (I d
On 18/07/19 1:29 PM, John Crawley wrote:
> Hi tomas and Thomas, thanks for your input.
> I think I have a basic idea of what exec does.
> However, try running in a terminal:
> echo $$
> exec
> #Then, in the new terminal:
> echo $$
>
> The two PIDs are different! (or were here)
Yes. You exec'd a
On 2019-07-18 10:29, John Crawley wrote:
Hi tomas and Thomas, thanks for your input.
I think I have a basic idea of what exec does.
However, try running in a terminal:
echo $$
exec
#Then, in the new terminal:
echo $$
The two PIDs are different! (or were here)
On 2019-07-17 17:37, Thomas Schmit
Hi tomas and Thomas, thanks for your input.
I think I have a basic idea of what exec does.
However, try running in a terminal:
echo $$
exec
#Then, in the new terminal:
echo $$
The two PIDs are different! (or were here)
On 2019-07-17 17:37, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
John Crawley wrote:
In Buster,
Hi,
John Crawley wrote:
> > In Buster, the launching dash shell dies *immediately* and the bash
> > prompt returns, even while the new window is still open.
tomas wrote:
> that most probably is due to a change
> in behaviour of "x-terminal-emulator".
My suspicion too. If the x-terminal-emulator
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 04:49:28PM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
> The behaviour of exec seems to have changed from Stretch to Buster -
> whether using bash or "sh" (dash here).
>
> Simple test, in default bash shell on terminal:
>
> sh
> # now with dash
> exec x-terminal-emulator
> # close new wind
The behaviour of exec seems to have changed from Stretch to Buster -
whether using bash or "sh" (dash here).
Simple test, in default bash shell on terminal:
sh
# now with dash
exec x-terminal-emulator
# close new window
In Stretch, the launching dash shell is held until the new one is
close
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