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Re: while sleep 1;do :& done vs. C-z
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Dan Jacobson |
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Re: while sleep 1;do :& done vs. C-z |
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Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:24:52 +0800 |
Chet> I suspect that chances are pretty good you're stopping the
Chet> `sleep 1' process in the first example, which causes it to return
Chet> to the calling shell with a non-zero exit status
By the way, odd, hitting C-z during
$ sleep 8 && echo OK
always gets OK... meaning that suspending something always causes it
look like it completed successfully... well, I guess I've got a lot to
learn. Anyways, I'm not sure one is able to make sleep return failure
with just C-z.