Re: [PATCH] silent job monitor when 'set +m'

[Chet Ramey]

Jeff Chua wrote:

>     > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Jan Schampera
>     <jan.schampera@web.de <mailto:jan.schampera@web.de>
>     > <mailto:jan.schampera@web.de <mailto:jan.schampera@web.de>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Chet Ramey schrieb:
>     >
>     >     > redirect stderr
>     >     > kill pid
>     >     > wait pid
>     >     > restore stderr
>     >     >
>     >     > It seems to me that this sequence forces the necessary
>     synchronicity.
>     >
>     >     Interesting. And sad that I never thought of that
>     >
>     >
>     > Will you consider having like a new option "set -j" to switch
>     displaying
>     > job information on/off"?
> 
>     I am inclined not, since there's a relatively easy workaround.
> 
> 
> 
> How do you silent this one without a subshell. 

What's wrong with the approach above?


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