Re: background, pipeline, hang

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/12/19 10:00 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 20
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       A pipeline, with two or more pipes, hangs when a background job is 
> running.
>       Only when the background job finishes, the shell prompts again.
>       Without the background job, the shell prompts immediately.
> 
> Repeat-By:
>       : | : | : ## immediately finishes
>       sleep 10 &
>       : | : | : ## this hangs (^C, ^\, ^Z do not help) until the sleep 
> finishes

Sorry, I can't reproduce this.


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