Re: Background jobs and notification (stdout vs stderr)

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> OK. I think that the zsh man pages should mention where all the data
> output by zsh are sent (to stdout, stderr, the tty...).

Index: Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo
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RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 jobs.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo	10 Jul 2001 08:59:18 -0000	1.3
+++ Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo	2 Jul 2004 13:53:54 -0000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 It keeps a table of current jobs, printed by the tt(jobs)
 command, and assigns them small integer numbers.
 When a job is started asynchronously with `tt(&)',
-the shell prints a line which looks like:
+the shell prints a line to standard error which looks like:
 
 example([1] 1234)
 
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@
 It normally informs you whenever a job becomes blocked so that
 no further progress is possible.  If the tt(NOTIFY) option is not set,
 it waits until just before it prints a prompt before it informs you.
+All such notifications are sent directly to the terminal, not to
+the standard output or standard error.
 
 When the monitor mode is on, each background job that completes
 triggers any trap set for tt(CHLD).

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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