From: "Barton E. Schaefer" <schaefer@z-code.ncd.com>
To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>, pws@ifh.de (Peter Stephenson),
zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 11:26:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <960530112626.ZM6227@zyrcon.z-code.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu> "Re: execcmd() reordering" (May 30, 8:00pm)
On May 30, 8:00pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
} Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering
}
} > 6) globbing is expanded before the fork. Other than getting the
} > prompt back an iota later when running background commands, I don't
} > see this is a big deal. One thing which seems to be a plus is that
} > failures to match are now handled synchronously for background
} > commands:
}
} Also it makes debugging much easier. Now prefork is really a historic
} name. There used to be prefork and postfork and a lot of substitutions had
} been done in the later.
Hmm; Is this going to cause a problem with stuff like:
zsh% (sleep 1 ; touch brandnewfile;) & (sleep 3; echo brand*;) &
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-05-30 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-28 9:18 $(nooutput) problem Peter Stephenson
1996-05-28 11:34 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-05-30 16:58 ` execcmd() reordering Peter Stephenson
1996-05-30 18:00 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-05-30 18:26 ` Barton E. Schaefer [this message]
1996-05-30 18:46 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-05-30 18:41 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-05-30 18:05 Duncan Sinclair
1996-05-30 19:10 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-05-30 19:52 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-05-31 14:32 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-05-31 10:15 Duncan Sinclair
1996-05-31 10:55 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-05-31 11:58 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-05-31 16:28 ` Bart Schaefer
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