Re: Parent shell gets stopped when a child shell is created with job control but not interactive (bash -mc)

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/28/14, 12:00 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> This works fine:
> 
> address@hidden:~$ ~/local/bin/bash -s <<< 'for i in . .; do (~/local/bin/bash 
> -mic ": & wait") ; done'
> [1] 1629
> [1]+  Done                    :
> [1] 1631
> [1]+  Done                    :
> 
> -----
> This does not:
> 
> address@hidden:~$ ~/local/bin/bash -s <<< 'for i in . .; do (~/local/bin/bash 
> -mc ": & wait") ; done'
> [1]+  Done                    :
> 
> [1]+  Stopped                 ~/local/bin/bash -s <<< 'for i in . .; do 
> (~/local/bin/bash -mc ": & wait") ; done'
> 

Thanks for the report.  Pointing out the behavior difference between the
first case (using -i) and the second (without) was the key.  Here's a
patch.

Chet
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jobs-exit.patch
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