Re: time builtin handles backgrounding poorly

[Jan Schampera]

Jack Lloyd wrote:

> Description:
>
>         The time builtin seems to be confused if something is
>         backgrounded, and prints immediately the time rather than
>         waiting for the job to complete. I found this very unexpected.
>
> Repeat-By:
>
> $ time sleep 5
> # hit C-Z to stop the job before 5 seconds
>
> [1]+  Stopped                 sleep 5
>
> real    0m0.525s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.000s
> $ fg
> sleep 5
> # the 5 second sleep continues
> $

I guess that's due to the fact that `time' is not a builtin command, but 
belongs to the syntax of a pipeline (as in grammar defs).

Though I know where it comes from, I don't know if that behaviour can be 
changed somehow, I'm not that familiar with the Bash itself.

J.