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Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell

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Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 6/29/20 4:33 PM, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>> 1) unexpected, as (a) it does not seem to be documented, (b) itʼs counter-intuitive and (c) other bourne-like shells (busybox ash, dash, ksh93, mksh, zsh) does not do that;
>
> It's an opportunity for optimization, not a bug

I am not saying that this is a bug, only that it is inconsistent with almost any other bourne-like shell.

>> 2) inconvenient, as in some cases PID of the parent shell is not an appropriate substitute for the PID of the real process.

> since the results are correct.

The results are _different_ across shell and, unfortunately, results provided by Bash are the least useful.  Consider:

	$ command … &
	[1] 30737
	$ strace -p $!
	strace: Process 30737 attached
        wait4(-1,

:-/

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