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From: bfox@sbphy.mit.edu (Brian Fox)
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Subject: bash 1.04: backgrounding subshells
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Date: 9 Feb 90 19:39:29 GMT
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   Date: 9 Feb 90 06:27:09 GMT
   From: uhccux!lupton@munnari.oz.au  (Robert Lupton)
   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)

Fixed in 1.05.

Brian