From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4322 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2001 09:22:58 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 19 Feb 2001 09:22:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 16080 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2001 09:22:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13504 Received: (qmail 16069 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2001 09:22:53 -0000 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:22:52 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200102190922.KAA11367@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:13:59 +0300 Subject: RE: Loop suspend Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > > > > What is the current status? Is zsh able to suspend loops containing only > > > builtins? > > > > No. Only if they have at least on external command or are in a pipeline. > > > > I had at least one case where > > while true; do > /bin/true > done > > was not suspended. I suspect, /bin/true simpy exits "too fast" for zsh to > catch it. As usual, I cannot reproduce it now. Yes, that's almost certainly too fast to hit it with ^Z. > -andrej > > P.S. you are still using "old" sunsite.auc.dk. I noticed this, because Outlook > is filtering on new sunsite.dk. Oops. Sorry. And thanks for pointing it out. Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de