Reply to message «Re: `jobs' builtin does not work with pipe in scripts», 
sent 23:57:53 26 November 2010, Friday
by Marc Weber:

> Excerpts from ZyX's message of Thu Nov 25 21:41:43 +0100 2010:
> >     zsh -c 'sleep 1s & sleep 1s & jobs -p | while read line ; do echo
> >     $line ; done'
> 
> What about zsh -i -c ' ...  ?
It works, but I was trying to use `jobs -p | ...' in a script that is intended 
to be used as library, so I can't put something like `#!/bin/zsh -i' there. For 
now it was replaced with `ps --ppid $$', though I do not like invoking 
additional process in a signal handler.