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Re: Option to disable VSUSP at prompt (feature request with proof of con


From: Eric Pruitt
Subject: Re: Option to disable VSUSP at prompt (feature request with proof of concept)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:21:12 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 09:32:37AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> I haven't thought about it too much, but I'm initially reluctant to put
> this into the mainline source, when it seems like it could be accomplished
> without any source changes at all.

A lot of "new" functionality added in each release could be implemented
in Bash itself using functions and / or external programs, so I don't
understand this sentiment as a rationale. Off the top of my head, I
think the "%T(...)" time formatting which can be achieved with many
implementations of date(1) is a great example of this.

That aside, implementing this without changes to Bash's C source code
requires the use of a DEBUG trap, PS0 or potentially PS1. Using stty in
a DEBUG trap the obvious way (simply "stty susp undef") would sometimes
result in "jobs" being non-empty when I otherwise had no other programs
in the background. I ultimately resolved this by running stty in a
subshell i.e. "stty susp undef" became "$(stty susp undef)", but I think
the fact that the obvious way of doing this is Bash doesn't work
perfectly suggests that it would be better implemented in C. Changing
VSUSP natively is also far faster than calling stty.

Eric



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