On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 willyat_private wrote: > > mc() > > { > > MC=`/usr/bin/mc -P "$@"` > > [ -n "$MC" ] && cd $MC > > unset MC > > } > > Nope. This (rather old) version breaks Ctrl-O for nonroot bash > instances. However it works with Bourne shell. It is the "suspend key" (ctrl-z by default) but I get the point. bash 1.14.7, bash 2.00.0, and Solaris 2.5 ksh lock hard when the command in `` (or $()) is suspended. tcsh 6.06, Sol 2.5 csh, and Sol 2.5 jsh (sh + job control) disregard ctrl+z when processing the command in ``. Nevertheless, the function using a temporary file is not perfect either: it allows the user to suspend mc but when as the process is stopped the shell executes the rest of the function immediately (is it a bug or a feature?) and the desired effect is lost. --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft -- http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] P.S. There are probably many dark cornerns in the job control: for instance, ``command1 && command2'' and ``command1 || command2''. What should happen when command1 is suspended? bash assumes command1 exits with code 0, csh seems to discard command2, jsh does not allow to suspend command1.
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