Re: execcmd() reordering

[Duncan Sinclair <sinclair@dis.strath.ac.uk>]

"Barton E. Schaefer" writes:
>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.

Oh, absolutely!  Does this change mean I can't interrupt long globs???
This would be terrible - esp. if the glob goes into a loop.

All the other things, I can live with.  This gives me nightmares.

Bye for now,


Duncan.