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Re: exit status problem

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: exit status problem
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 02:03:13 +0100
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On 2010-12-03 16:09:16 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> I don't understand why you don't get status 0 after 2. "sleep 1 &"
> should reset it.

It doesn't:

xvii:~> zsh -f
xvii% false
xvii% sleep 1&
[1] 8693
xvii% 
[1]  + done       sleep 1
xvii% 
xvii% echo $?
1
xvii% 

The observed behavior doesn't follow the documentation.
The zsh man pages say:

  A backgrounded pipeline returns a status of zero.

It seems to be a bug in zsh 4.3.10 that has been fixed in the latest
dev versions. Do you have more information?

Back to my original problem, I can reproduce it with the dev version,
using:

1. I type "false".
2. I type "sleep 5 &".
3. I type "false".
4. I increase the window width.
5. I type [Enter].

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