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Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell

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Subject Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell
Date Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:43:14 +0300
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Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> wrote:
> Useful replacements:

Thank you.  Yes, I have to pick up habit to post known user-level workarounds along with bugreports.

> If you need to ensure a disk executable is used,

Of course.  Why ‘command’ otherwise?

> $ "$(type -P cat)" &
> [1] 2092352
> $ ps --pid $! --ppid $!
>     PID TTY          TIME CMD
> 2092352 pts/42   00:00:00 cat

Also:

	$ (exec cat) &
	[1] 31427
	$ ps --pid $! --ppid $!
	  PID TTY          TIME CMD
	31427 pts/3    00:00:00 cat

Which, IIUC, is somewhat closer to what other shells do, though I cannot come up with any idea what practical difference it might make.

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Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org> - 2020-07-01 00:43 +0300

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