ip service back after a short blackout ...
I'll look at this today
another bullet item for the "builtins are tricky" list
testing via pty is a good idea

On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 23:09:37 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Cedric Blancher
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 3 June 2012 22:12, Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> The grep builtin in ast-open 20120531 quits when I put it temporarily
> >> into the background with ^Z and then use fg to put it into the
> >> foreground again.
> >>
> >> Example:
> >>
> >> grep -r foo /usr/share/doc
> >> ^Z[1] + Stopped                  grep -r foo /usr/share/doc/
> >> fg
> >> <job quits with any output>
> >>
> >> bg does the same, grep just stops working
> >
> > If I put the grep command in a subshell and then use ^Z the job
> > disappears completely from output of jobs or jobs -l. It's just gone.
> >
> > The only thing which works (per Roland's suggestion) is to use this
> > command chain:
> > (ulimit -c 0 ; grep -r foo /usr/share/man ; true)
> > this can be stopped with ^Z and resumed properly, too.

> Mhhh... can "pty" be used to test this in an automated way ? AFAIK we
> had similar issues (e.g. backgrounded "tail" or "tail -f" not working
> or not working properly... and wrapping them into a non-|fork()|ing
> subshell generated more issues while a |fork()|ing subshell worked
> properly) with "tail" in the past...

> ----

> Bye,
> Roland

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