From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA05190 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 04:48:10 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27525; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:25:28 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 14:25:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Barton E. Schaefer" Message-Id: <960530112626.ZM6227@zyrcon.z-code.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 11:26:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: Zoltan Hidvegi "Re: execcmd() reordering" (May 30, 8:00pm) References: <199605301800.UAA31169@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Reply-To: schaefer@z-code.ncd.com X-Face: czU|*h"p8AX?4.I.yU.^s%TIMx|"-s,*'|#H^|e,QjE&!jL%<]:-.U/;khS%3a2BC5_d#)( mz=$$G0u9P&*N8cA~b[URf;lgKRif@#qEf[ltie#Gg0%6$b`e`k.Cgw:\qJx\\a7c(K7^3;gXW:e1@ J, pws@ifh.de (Peter Stephenson), zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"b1_Uk.0.yj6.OWUhn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1232 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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*;) & -- Bart Schaefer Vice President, Technology, Z-Code Software schaefer@z-code.com Division of NCD Software Corporation http://www.well.com/www/barts http://www.ncdsoft.com/ZMail/