Re: ash backgrounding bug?

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 06:39:19PM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote:
> > Looks like a bug to me.
> I boiled it down to
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> f() {
>       sleep 3
> }
> 
> echo $(sleep 3 >&- & echo $!)
> echo $(f >&- & echo $!)
> 
> where the first echo completes immediately, the second only after three 
> seconds.

Looks like it won't 'background' a shell function inside $(...)
a simple f & doesn't stop the shell.

        David

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