Re: [PATCH] Fix foreground dead jobs in trap handlers reported like background ones in `jobs'

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/8/22 9:09 AM, Koichi Murase wrote:
> Thank you for your reply and sorry for the late reply.
>
> 2022年10月4日(火) 0:56 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>:
> > > I expect the same behavior of `f1' and `f2' as far as there are no
> > > background jobs.
> >
> > Why? f2 calls `jobs', and so requests information in a particular format,
> > which may or may not be the same format as the default (compact) format
> > bash uses when it reports job status before printing a prompt.
>
> My point is *not* about the format of the output of `jobs', but
> whether `jobs' should print the entries of foreground dead jobs, to
> begin with.

Yes. I believe that `jobs' should print the status of jobs that the shell
would otherwise notify the user about. This includes foreground jobs that
are killed by a signal other than SIGINT/SIGPIPE.

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