From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: why does "jobs | wc" not work?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:17:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021126111711.GE27620@greux.loria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18744.1038308955@csr.com>
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:09:15 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> This isn't strictly a bug, but there's a workaround in the 4.1 code.
>
> In zsh
>
> jobs | anything
>
> causes the shell to fork for the left hand side of the pipeline. This
> is then no longer the shell with the job control, hence doesn't show any
> jobs. Other shells fork the `anything' and run `jobs' in the current
> shell.
But with bash for instance, both
jobs | cat
and
true | jobs
work. So, it seems that jobs still works even in a child process.
The same thing that 4.1 does?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-26 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-26 10:49 Dominik Vogt
2002-11-26 10:56 ` Vincent Lefevre
2002-11-26 11:09 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-11-26 11:17 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2002-11-26 11:27 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-11-26 11:42 ` Dominik Vogt
2002-11-26 11:59 ` Vincent Lefevre
2002-11-26 12:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-11-26 12:48 ` Dominik Vogt
2002-11-26 13:05 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-11-26 13:33 ` Dominik Vogt
2002-11-26 17:20 ` Danek Duvall
2002-11-26 13:13 ` Vincent Lefevre
2002-11-26 11:24 ` Stephane Chazelas
2002-11-26 17:11 Borzenkov Andrey
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