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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: function definition with & operator
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:46:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Z9diXFviDw81qMY4vhPMV1UDs65o+h89UDeT2FpTcvZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <edfcc306-4f5e-63dd-00e0-2481e71ec5cc@gmx.com>

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com> wrote:
> The other week when messing around i noticed that you can define an function
> in (what i thought would be) the background and it will remain in defined.

Background jobs are always run in a subshell, even if you use the {
command } syntax.  There is no such thing as a background job in the
current shell.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-01 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-01 18:09 Eric Cook
2017-09-01 20:46 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2017-09-01 21:23   ` Eric Cook
2017-09-02 19:23     ` Bart Schaefer
2017-09-02 19:37 ` Peter Stephenson

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