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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Bug/misfeature in 4bsd /bin/sh
Message-ID: <8933@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 Nov 88 18:30:20 GMT
References: <117@sickkids.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <117@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) writes:
>Does anyone else consider this a somewhat obnoxious misfeature?

No, it's a bug.  Not even job control requires the behavior you report.