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Re: pws-22: killing the ZSH loops problem

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: pws-22: killing the ZSH loops problem
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:23:16 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:16:01 +0000
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Bart Schaefer wrote:

> One possibility is to not permit job control of individual external jobs
> run within a shell construct; that is, force ^Z to stop the entire shell
> loop and restart it.  As has been mentioned before, this is easy in other
> shells because they typically fork off the tails of pipelines whereas zsh
> always forks off the heads -- but some of the new list_pipe code that was
> added recently may give us the necessary hooks to manage it.  Given that,
> we can stop using new pgrps for subjobs of a shell construct, and then
> zsh can get the terminal signals directly again.

I think, this is the way to go. I'll have a look at it, but probably not
before the weekend.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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