Re: background, pipeline, hang

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: background, pipeline, hang
Date	2019-07-12 14:26 -0400
Message-ID	<mailman.1039.1562956210.2688.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 7/12/19 10:00 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 20
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 	A pipeline, with two or more pipes, hangs when a background job is running.
> 	Only when the background job finishes, the shell prompts again.
> 	Without the background job, the shell prompts immediately.
> 
> Repeat-By:
> 	: | : | : ## immediately finishes
> 	sleep 10 &
> 	: | : | : ## this hangs (^C, ^\, ^Z do not help) until the sleep finishes

Sorry, I can't reproduce this.


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