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Re: non-interactive set -m

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: non-interactive set -m
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:05:04 +0100
In-reply-to: Message from Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> of "Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:57:02 BST." <20090711195702.52896b2a@pws-pc>
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
> (The other chunk is because we allow "jobs" to work in a subshell
> so you can pipe its output---if you "set -m" you're effectively making
> the shell the output for "jobs" twice.)
           ^

The missing word is "save".  When you do "set -m" in the subshell you're
wiping the record of the parent shell's job control---that's inevitable
if you now want the subshell to do its own job control.

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Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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