On 10/11/16 10:14 PM, s7v7nisla...@gmail.com wrote: > 1. the script to reproduce > bash-4.4$ cat t.sh > (cd /tmp && sleep 20) & > > echo "end" > > > 2. run it > bash-4.4$ bash t.sh > end > > 3. script end, but there is a new forked script. > bash-4.4$ ps -ef | grep t.sh > 501 50268 1 0 10:09AM ttys015 0:00.00 bash t.sh > 501 50275 50181 0 10:10AM ttys015 0:00.00 grep t.sh > > > > question: > when using sh -> dash, It will not fork before subshell, what's the different? > > why bash bahavior like this? is that a bug?
It's not a bug; it's an opportunity for optimization. It's like this because it hasn't come up as a performance problem. I'll take a look at it. There are probably several opportunities like this. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/