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 GAA06579 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 06:06:17 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA29476; Thu, 30 May 1996 15:51:53 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 15:51:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Barton E. Schaefer" Message-Id: <960530125237.ZM6707@zyrcon.z-code.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 12:52:37 -0700 In-Reply-To: Zoltan Hidvegi "Re: execcmd() reordering" (May 30, 9:10pm) References: <199605301909.VAA17820@turan.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, sinclair@dis.strath.ac.uk (Duncan Sinclair), zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"vjKQe.0.UC7.PnVhn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1236 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On May 30, 9:10pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote: } Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering } } > When you've got a *huge* expansion which is 50% of the run-time } > of the command, I'd like to be able to get on with other things. } } You can use (foo **/*) & I tend to agree with Duncan here, I'm afraid. I may not have any idea how large a list the glob is going to expand into; it's ridiculous to expect me to subshell every command that might do a glob. Furthermore, it'd be really nice to be able to stop (^Z) an unexpectedly huge glob and then "bg" it, or to interrupt it with ^C if I decide it was a mistake. -- 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/