Marc Glisse <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed a strange behavior of "wait" when I suspend and resume a script. > > $ cat a.sh > #!/bin/dash > (sleep 7; echo blah) & > (sleep 7; echo bloh) & > wait ; echo coucou > $ ./a.sh > ^Z > zsh: suspended ./a.sh > $ fg > [1] + continued ./a.sh > coucou > $ blah > bloh > > As you can see, the instruction after "wait" was executed immediatly on > resume, without waiting for the jobs. > > If I replace the ';' after "wait" by "&&" and do the same suspend+resume, > "coucou" is never printed. > > I am using dash version 0.5.7-3 in debian testing.
That's normal as wait was interrupted by a signal. If you want to wait even after an interruption, you should check the return value of wait. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
