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How to misplace an entire pipeline
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- From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: How to misplace an entire pipeline
- Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:31:09 -0700
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Suspend a pipeline whose tail is a builtin that has already exited, and
the whole job gets lost, orphaning the left hand side:
torch% print $ZSH_VERSION $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL
4.3.12-dev-1 1.5412
torch% sleep 10 | true
torch% jobs
torch% ps ax | grep sleep
32474 pts/2 T 0:00 sleep 10
32480 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep sleep
torch%
Worse, suspend a pipeline whose tail is a builtin that blocks on I/O:
torch% sleep 10 | sleep 20 | read
The builtin does not get suspended, so the shell is stuck; fortunately in
this case one can interrupt the builtin, again leaving the left side in
limbo:
torch% ps ax | grep sleep
32493 pts/2 T 0:00 sleep 10
32494 pts/2 T 0:00 sleep 20
32501 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep sleep
This used to work, sort of:
torch% print $ZSH_VERSION $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL
4.2.0
torch% sleep 10 | sleep 20 | true
zsh: suspended sleep 10 | sleep 20
torch% jobs
[1] + suspended sleep 10 | sleep 20
torch%
Note that the builtin is gone but the rest of the pipeline remains a job.
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