On May 6, 2016 2:41 PM, "Peter Stephenson" wrote: > > On Tue, 3 May 2016 20:56:14 -0700 > Bart Schaefer wrote: > >On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Jaron L Tibbitts III wrote: > > > > > > [2] + 11459 done echo 1 | > > > 11461 suspended (tty output) pv -l -s $(echo 1) | > > > 11462 interrupt cat > > > > I don't know why the $(echo) makes any > > difference to it receiving the TTOU in the first place. > > Actually, it looks like This Can't Possibly Happen, since $(echo 1) is > over and done with by the time the pv is started; we've got the output, > closed the fd, and waited for the process to finish (by PID). So there > is some weird lingering side effect. Something to do with list_pipe_* handling? Is the parent confused about the state of the child that will eventually exec pv ?