Re: PATCH: subshell into a new process group

Bart Schaefer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel
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On Fri, May 8, 2026, 9:16 PM Anthony Heading <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have found this feature useful to allow signals to be sent to precisely
> bounded subshell trees.  I couldn't find any existing way to achieve it


Not at a shell right now but I'm pretty sure the way to do this is
  ( print this is a new pgrp ) &!
You just have to capture the value of $! and use that PID for signaling the
new group.  There's no point in keeping the subshell as a bg job because
you'll get TTIN/TTOU signals if fg'd.
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