CSH -- stopping job in SOURCE'd file

Ron Natalie <ron> ron at brl-tgr.ARPA
Wed Nov 21 04:54:25 AEST 1984


> My fix also means " a ; b ; c " behaves as documented; stopping
> process B lets process C start.
> -- 
>         -IAN!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo

Great, Berkeley documents something as being a bug, later fixes it, and
some person goes back and changes it back.  In my opinion there are only
two correct modes of operation for stopping a ; b ; c.

Either the whole line should be stopped as a unit, or when b is stopped
c should not be run.

-Ron



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