Re: [PATCH] jobs: Report creation of background jobs

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 08:12:10AM +0100, Ron Yorston wrote:
> Although it doesn't seem to be in POSIX it's relatively common
> for interactive shells to report details of jobs run in the
> background.  bash, ksh and tcsh report job id and pid while
> the Bourne shell from Unix V7 reports only the pid.
> 
> This from bash:
> 
>    $ sleep 100 & sleep 200 &
>    [1] 4626
>    [2] 4627
>    $ sleep 300 | sleep 400 &
>    [3] 4636
>    $ jobs -l
>    [1]   4626 Running                 sleep 100 &
>    [2]-  4627 Running                 sleep 200 &
>    [3]+  4635 Running                 sleep 300
>          4636                       | sleep 400 &
> 
> Unlike reporting of job completions such messages are not controlled
> by 'set -m'.
> 
> ash has never supported reporting of the creation of background
> jobs.  Add this feature to dash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  src/jobs.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Thanks but as minimalism is one of the primary goals of dash
I won't be applying this.
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