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Re: have '&' automatically disown?

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: have '&' automatically disown?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:34:45 +0000
In-reply-to: Message from Greg Klanderman <gak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> of "Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:06:24 EST." <m3sk9c7o33.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Greg Klanderman wrote:
> > I can well believe all of this, but it's not clear to me why its
> > relevant.
> 
> Because if I turn monitor back on I can completely wedge my shell.

Hmm, yes, I can see that makes it relevant.  MONITOR wasn't really
designed to be dynamic, it just kind of evolved in a complex way like
everything else.

> Would it make sense to just auto-disown when monitor is off?

That *does* make a lot of sense, actually: if job control's turned off,
there's no point in half-pretending it isn't.  Disowning existing
background jobs at that point at least makes more sense than having them
come back in a zombified fashion.  I'll think about it tomorrow.

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