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RE: Loop suspend

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Loop suspend
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:22:52 +0100 (MET)
In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:13:59 +0300
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Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> > 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.

Yes, that's almost certainly too fast to hit it with ^Z.

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

Oops. Sorry. And thanks for pointing it out.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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