From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Crash on jobstates since workers/49783 (commit 6a8aa2a)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:13:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Zs63vJLeUHeGDDKFgTvb96koQ2qG7y5Dsv2W6j+9Jcmg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409134730.698961.1648457237653@mail2.virginmedia.com>
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 1:47 AM Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> The code now reports "wait: can't manipulate jobs in subshell",
> which I believe is a correct statement of affairs.
Well, no, it's not, or at least not entirely.
% ret27() { sleep 5; return 27 }
% ( ret27 & wait $!; print $? )
27
A subhell can spawn and wait for processes, it just can't move them
between background and foreground.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-28 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-25 22:32 Bart Schaefer
2022-03-27 5:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-28 8:47 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-28 14:49 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-28 15:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-28 16:14 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-28 16:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-28 19:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-29 3:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-29 9:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-29 13:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-29 15:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-29 15:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-29 15:41 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-28 15:13 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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