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

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/2/24 9:30 AM, Oğuz wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 3:55 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > A paraphrase of what?
>
> Issue 7 says this:
>
> By default, the jobs utility shall display the status of all stopped
> jobs, running background jobs and all jobs whose status has changed
> and have not been reported by the shell.
>
> And Issue 8 draft, this:
>
> By default, the jobs utility shall display the status of all
> background jobs, both running and suspended, and all jobs whose status
> has changed and have not been reported by the shell.
>
> The latter, which seems to be a paraphrase of the former, sounds as if
> `jobs' is supposed to report on jobs other than stopped and
> asynchronous ones. Which is not true, no shell does it and no one
> expects it.

There's no real difference between the two statements; there is a
clarification for consistency with the language in the new "Job
Control" section in Issue 8.

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