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>>>>> "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