Re: [PATCH] jobs: Report creation of background jobs
Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.dash |
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| Message-ID | <Zg+6/[email protected]> |
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 08:12:10AM +0100, Ron Yorston wrote: > Although it doesn't seem to be in POSIX it's relatively common > for interactive shells to report details of jobs run in the > background. bash, ksh and tcsh report job id and pid while > the Bourne shell from Unix V7 reports only the pid. > > This from bash: > > $ sleep 100 & sleep 200 & > [1] 4626 > [2] 4627 > $ sleep 300 | sleep 400 & > [3] 4636 > $ jobs -l > [1] 4626 Running sleep 100 & > [2]- 4627 Running sleep 200 & > [3]+ 4635 Running sleep 300 > 4636 | sleep 400 & > > Unlike reporting of job completions such messages are not controlled > by 'set -m'. > > ash has never supported reporting of the creation of background > jobs. Add this feature to dash. > > Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <[email protected]> > --- > src/jobs.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Thanks but as minimalism is one of the primary goals of dash I won't be applying this. -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt