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From: jjd@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (James J Dempsey)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: 1.04 bug: builtin in background
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Date: 9 Nov 89 21:19:58 GMT
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I was able to reproduce this bug on Sparcstation-1 SunOS 4.0.3c and
Vax 8530 Ultrix 3.0.

Running any builtin run in the background seems to cause a coredump:

$ echo hi there &
describe_pid: No such pid (1404)!

Tell jjd@bbn.com to fix this someday.
Mailing a bug report...hi there
done.
Stopping myself...Abort (core dumped)


I tried this also on an HP 9000 Series 330 running HP-UX 6.2, and it
didn't core dump, but then again, the HP doesn't have job control so
that probably makes a difference.

		--Jim--