Re: job control (Re: dash race)

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oleg Verych <olecom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
>> >Also, `ps` && `kill` is better implementation of job control. dash's
>> >interactivity isn't a good one, so what reason is behind shell's job
>> >control after all?
>> 
>> I don't understand this.
> 
> You don't understand, that `wait` and job control is interactive shell
> features adopted from Korn Shell?

I use this construct all the time in my scripts so I certainly
consider this to be a grave bug in dash :)

Unfortunately I'm awfully busy right now but I'll try to reproduce
it once I get a chance.  If anyone can get me a patch before then
it'd be much appreciated :)

Thanks,
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