Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 03:40:04 GMT From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/74404: sh(1) does not handle signals to subshells properly and/or $! is broken Message-ID: <200904070340.n373e4mm004247@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/74404; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/74404: sh(1) does not handle signals to subshells properly
and/or $! is broken
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:11:08 -0500 (CDT)
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
>> [ sh forks twice for (somecommand) & ]
>
> It seems reasonable for sh to fork twice here. You can avoid it by doing
> { somecommand; } &.
I honestly don't remember how I came up with the script in question, but I
suspect that I picked it up from an example bash script. Based on that,
it may be worth making the script function as is.
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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