Re: [Help-bash] Mixing background tasks with input redirection somehow unsets stty's icanon and echo

[Chet Ramey]

> I wrote a script that runs a bunch of tasks in parallel, but
> serializes their output as it they had ran in sequence.
> 
> Then I hit an weird bug and minified it to a testcase (available below).

You might want to run this using a system call tracer and see which
process modifies the terminal settings last.

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