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Re: weird zsh problem with background procs and scripts

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From: Geoff Wing <gcw@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: weird zsh problem with background procs and scripts
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:39:20 +1000
In-reply-to: <20060812223515.GA9470@fast>
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Organization: PrimeNet Computer Consultancy
References: <20060812223515.GA9470@fast>

On Sunday 2006-08-13 08:34 +1000, Tyler Spivey output:
:If you put the following into a loop it won't work. Is there a
:workaround?
:#!/bin/zsh
:while :;do
:ed &
:jobs
:sleep 1
:done
:this should launch a bunch of eds int he background, but only seems to
:load one.

Works for me.  4.3.2-dev-1 on NetBSD.
Maybe your ed is exiting instead?

[3] 3050
[3]  + suspended (tty input)  ed
[3]  + suspended (tty input)  ed
[4] 8521
[4]  + suspended (tty input)  ed
[3]  - suspended (tty input)  ed
[4]  + suspended (tty input)  ed
[5] 29234
[5]  + suspended (tty input)  ed
[3]    suspended (tty input)  ed
[4]  - suspended (tty input)  ed
[5]  + suspended (tty input)  ed
...
and so on.

Regards,
Geoff

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