Re: [Help-bash] command substitution $( ) waits for child’s &

[Seth David Schoen]

Seth David Schoen writes:

> There is nothing in Unix IPC that lets script x distinguish between these
> cases, in terms of knowing for sure whether script y will _eventually_
> give more output or not, until script y has exited.  (After all, processes
> that are running in the background are still allowed to write output on
> stdout; they aren't necessarily promising to remain quiet.)

I'm sorry, on further reflection the distinction does seem possible: if
the background process were detached from the shell's process group,
then even though it's _possible_ for it to continue to give output, the
original shell process may have exited along with its entire process
group.  So I would then expect either

sleep 3 &
disown -a

or

setsid sleep 3 &

to do something like what you want.  Neither of these worked for me on
bash-4.3.30, so I'm now also slightly puzzled by the situation!

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