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Re: weird behavior with "[un]setopt monitor"



On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:56:40 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bottom line, you're not guaranteed of predictable behavior unless you
> change the monitor option only when the job table is empty.

Indeed it's never really been set up to be a dynamic option at all, more
as a way of querying whether a shell has job control, although turning
it off at the start of a shell is probably consistent.  This hasn't been
documented, though.  I can believe there are numerous oddities around if
you start trying to turn it on and off.

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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