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Re: Buglette & Fix for checkrmall in 4.0.2



On Oct 15, 10:13pm, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> Subject: Re: Buglette & Fix for checkrmall in 4.0.2
> On ðÎÄ, 2001-10-15 at 21:07, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > > This raises the question of whether a backgrounded subshell should still
> > > have the INTERACTIVE option set.
> 
> I have very vague recollection that I complained about this once and
> somebody (Bart? Peter?) gave me valid reasons why it should not be
> unset. But may be it was another option,

There are reasons to leave interactive set in a subshell.  I'm not sure
there are reasons to leave it set in a *backgrounded* subshell.  Perhaps
it's too difficult to tell whether a subshell is being backgrounded?


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