Re: Bash spews bracketed-paste escape sequences when handling signal.

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/18/24 4:56 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

> (That would be an issue if we had used eval:
>
>   eval 'command ... $$ ...' &
>
> now we backgrounded the eval, which then in the background
> process parses the shell syntax and does all the expanding.
> Now $$ is the PID of the background process, not that of
> the shell which launched it.)

No, that's not sufficient to reset $$. This is why $BASHPID exists.

--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature