From: Stefan Monnier <monnier+lists/zsh/users/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: jobs command and pipes
Date: 30 Oct 1998 11:14:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lemrqrpqp.fsf@tequila.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199810301503.PAA23232@diamond.tao.co.uk>
>>>>> "Zefram" == Zefram <zefram@tao.co.uk> writes:
> If the jobs command is on the left hand side of a pipeline, the shell has
> to fork, and the jobs builtin runs in the forked process. This process
> is not in control of any jobs, so the jobs command has nothing to report.
Now the question is: why "on the left hand side" rather the other ?
Zsh isn't particularly lean and mean, os mayb eit makes sense to offer the
choice so that "jobs | something" can work (and so that we can choose which
process' exit status will be used for the whole pipe's exit status ?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-30 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <199810301148.LAA20596@diamond.tao.co.uk>
1998-10-30 12:43 ` zsh-3.1.5 released Geoff Wing
1998-10-30 14:36 ` jobs command and pipes Owen M. Astley
1998-10-30 15:03 ` Zefram
1998-10-30 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
1998-10-30 17:01 ` Zefram
1998-10-30 22:14 ` Dan Nelson
1998-10-30 15:08 ` Bruce Stephens
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