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Re: Strange behavior of $jobstates

On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:27:15 +0000, Peter Stephenson
<p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, the change is correct.  Setting a parameter in the left hand side
> of the pipeline shouild not affect anything outside the pipeline.
>
> Although the standard doesn't specify which side of the pipeline is run
> in a forked copy, in zsh it's always the left hand side, so the fact
> that effects were escaping from there was a bug.

I

Thank you for the easy-to-understand explanation. t was difficult for
me to understand with ChangeLog description alone.
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