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From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: BASH 1.04 and backgrounded execs
Message-ID: <1990Jan23.164119.19168@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 90 16:41:19 GMT
References: <9001230301.AA07613@turing.cs.rpi.edu>
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In article <9001230301.AA07613@turing.cs.rpi.edu> tale@TURING.CS.RPI.EDU (David C Lawrence) writes:

>sirius:tale (2) exec xterm &
>describe_pid: No such pid (23608)!

This happens to any builtin started in the background, not just exec.  It's
fixed for the next release.

Chet Ramey
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