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From: andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Stuff running in subshells can be annoying
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Date: 10 Jan 90 20:06:53 GMT
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In-reply-to: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU's message of 10 Jan 90 19:16:51 GMT

In article <1990Jan10.191651.6471@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) writes:
   In article andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) writes:

   >It seems now that stuff in `` or $()
   >gets run in a subshell in 1.04 where there aren't really any jobs.  Is
   >this fixable?

   It's fixed now; it was broken in 1.03.  First of all, stuff in `` or $()
	[example of why 1.03 was broken]

   Chet Ramey

But this doesn't really answer the question.  Will it ever be possible
for me to do
	exec $(jobs | fgprg 'emacs -nw')
while still having the shell perform correctly in other cases?  Would
it require treating jobs separately from other builtins?

--

Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus