Re: 5.3-alpha: the `jobs' builtin prints foreground dead jobs with function substitutions

[Oğuz]

On Thursday, May 2, 2024, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
> It doesn't. In an interactive shell, while executing a command list,
> every shell prints a notification if a foreground job is killed by a
> signal before executing the next comamnd in the list. Nobody waits
> until issuing the next prompt. The standard doesn't cover that, maybe
> intentionally.
>

Only zsh and bosh decorate the notification like `jobs' does; others
including Sun and SCO ksh88 print only a string describing the signal. I
think we're talking about two different categories of notifications though;
the one sent when a foreground job is killed is useful when the shell is
non-interactive too, the other not so much. I don't know why the standard
doesn't cover it, but if you plan to follow zsh in this I don't think
that's a good idea. It's ugly and confusing.


-- 
Oğuz