Re: background, pipeline, hang

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/13/19 5:55 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:

> This runs for two seconds:
>       bash --norc --noprofile -ic "trap 'tput hs' DEBUG; sleep 2 & :|:|:"
> 
> While this immediately finishes:
>       bash --norc --noprofile -ic "trap ':' DEBUG; sleep 2 & :|:|:"

I believe this has to do with running a process that forks from the DEBUG
trap while executing a pipeline.

Just another reason executing a DEBUG trap for a simple command that's run
as part of a pipeline is a bad idea.

This looks like a Linux-only problem, so I'll look when I have better
access to a Linux machine.

Chet

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