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From: cks@WHITE.TORONTO.EDU (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: bash on BSD systems sometimes looses track of jobs
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Date: 22 Jun 89 01:12:35 GMT
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 bash seems to think that a pipeline has finished when the first
member of it has, instead of when all of them have. When you do
something like pipe output to a pager and then control-Z back to bash,
bash will consider the job done, despite the fact that the pager is
still running.

Repeat-By:
	cat /etc/motd | more
suspend more. notice how bash reports that the job is done, and won't
show it with 'jobs'. do a ps to see that the more process is still
there.

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