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RE: Loop suspend

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Loop suspend
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:13:59 +0300
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>
> Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>
> > What is the current status? Is zsh able to suspend loops containing only
> > builtins?
>
> No. Only if they have at least on external command or are in a pipeline.
>

I had at least one case where

while true; do
/bin/true
done

was not suspended. I suspect, /bin/true simpy exits "too fast" for zsh to
catch it. As usual, I cannot reproduce it now.

-andrej

P.S. you are still using "old" sunsite.auc.dk. I noticed this, because Outlook
is filtering on new sunsite.dk.

References:
- Re: Loop suspend
  - From: Sven Wischnowsky

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