Re: jobs -Z example?

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On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> Oh, there's probably a race condition then.  Try this instead:
>
>  perl -e '$0 = "Test hiding command"; sleep 10;' & sleep 2; ps $!
>
> The extra sleep in the parent shell will give perl a bit longer to get 
> going.
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that works.


> Your evidence so far indicates that assigning to $0 in perl is able to 
> change the command, so there must be something perl is doing that "jobs 
> -Z" is not doing.
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seems like it.

thanks...


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