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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: non-interactive set -m
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
> (The other chunk is because we allow "jobs" to work in a subshell
> so you can pipe its output---if you "set -m" you're effectively making
> the shell the output for "jobs" twice.)
           ^

The missing word is "save".  When you do "set -m" in the subshell you're
wiping the record of the parent shell's job control---that's inevitable
if you now want the subshell to do its own job control.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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