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Re: Background jobs with no job control / disown bug?

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From: chs@xxxxxxxxx (Chip Salzenberg)
To: pws@xxxxxx (Peter William Stephenson)
Subject: Re: Background jobs with no job control / disown bug?
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 09:32:31 -0500 (EST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <9511031128.AA24164@xxxxxxxxxx> from "Peter William Stephenson" at Nov 3, 95 12:28:31 pm

According to Peter William Stephenson:
> It occurred to me that one way of avoiding a background job getting
> job control (disown is not a sufficient method in a function) is to
> unsetopt MONITOR, spawn the job, then setopt MONITOR again.

How about spawning it from a subshell?

    % (sleep 30&)
    % jobs
    %

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               Chip Salzenberg, aka <chs@xxxxxxxxx>
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          -- Crow T. Robot, MST3K: "Stranded In Space"

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- Background jobs with no job control / disown bug?
  - From: Peter William Stephenson

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