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From: lupton@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Robert Lupton)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: bash 1.04: backgrounding subshells
Message-ID: <6524@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 90 06:27:09 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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If I say
bash> ( cd foo ; make bar ) &
I get a job number (say [2]), and then immediately a message that
%2 has finished. But this means that the cd has finished (I think),
anyway the make is still happily running (as shown by a ps x). I
think that this is a bug.

			Robert
			
(Vax 8600 running Ultrix 3.1, compiled with cc)