CSH -- stopping job in SOURCE'd file; ^Z and type-ahead
idallen at watmath.UUCP
idallen at watmath.UUCP
Thu Nov 29 08:49:57 AEST 1984
> From mark at elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller) Tue Nov 20 13:33:08 1984
> > It doesn't have to. I fixed it. Stopping a job in a SOURCE'd file
> > just stops the job. The shell continues with the next command in the
> > file. My fix also means " a ; b ; c " behaves as documented; stopping
> > process B lets process C start. -IAN!
> That's a fix I don't want. I've often used ^Z to zap a series of type-ahead
> jobs, when that was what I wanted it to do. Especially useful if one of those
> jobs contains an error. You can use ^Z; fg to erase and start over again.
> That's the trouble, isn't it. One persons bug is another's feature.
The fix to the shell doesn't affect behaviour with type-ahead. How could it --
the shell hasn't even read the type-ahead! ^Z still flushes it.
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) University of Waterloo
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