Re: Our /bin/sh and process group IDs

From: Ganael Laplanche <ganael.laplanche_at_martymac.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:29:10 UTC 
On Saturday, March 26, 2022 8:39:50 PM CEST Jilles Tjoelker wrote:

Hello Jilles,

> This appears to be a gray area, and the exact behaviour varies across
> shells. For example, with  stty tostop  in effect,
> [...]
>
> I think it is definitely undesirable for  set -m  to have an effect
> across multiple levels of subshells by default, since it makes the
> innermost processes immediately escape from the outer process group
> supervision again.
> 
> As it is now, FreeBSD sh has implemented this by ignoring  set -m  from
> a process other than the first process

Right. Thanks for those interesting examples & explanations.

> A second workaround is to start a new instance of sh.

Yep !

Thanks again,

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