Re: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster

From	John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster
Date	2019-07-18 09:50 +0200
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On 2019-07-18 14:53, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 18/07/19 1:29 PM, John Crawley wrote:
>> However, try running in a terminal:
>> echo $$
>> exec <someterminal>
>> #Then, in the new terminal:
>> echo $$
>> The two PIDs are different! (or were here)
> 
> Yes. You exec'd a terminal, which then started a shell. You'll probably
> find (I did) that the first pid you got is now the pid of the terminal:

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.
-- 
John

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dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-07-17 09:50 +0200
  Re: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-17 10:20 +0200
    Re: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-07-17 10:40 +0200
      Re: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-07-18 03:40 +0200
        Re: terminal window returns prompt (was: dash/bash: exec behaviour  change on Buster) John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-07-18 05:40 +0200
        Re: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-18 08:00 +0200
          Re: dash/bash: exec behaviour change on Buster John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-07-18 09:50 +0200

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