Re: Job control bug in revision 3800d4934391b,

[Kris Maglione <maglione.k@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:53:16PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>Kris Maglione <maglione.k@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure how to describe this bug, but it's affected one of my
>> scripts, and those of several of my users. Basically, we've had loops
>> dieing when backgrounded programs exit. This is the simplest test case
>> I can come up with:
>>
>> #!/bin/dash
>> {
>>        echo foo
>>        sleep 1
>>        echo foo
>>        echo done>/dev/tty
>> } | while read p; do
>>        ( echo good & ) &
>> done
>> echo done
>>
>>
>> In versions prior to 3800d4934391b, the output would
>> "good\ndone\ndone\ngood" (or some permutation thereof depending on
>> system load), but from 3800d4934391b on, it's "good\ndone".
>
>This should be fixed by the patch that I posted yesterday.

I should have mentioned that I tested it with every revision 
upto and including that one (especially as it looked promising).

I definitely still have this problem as of 
207e4c2a322fe: [JOBS] Fix wait regression where it does not wait for all jobs  master 

Thanks,
-- 
Kris Maglione

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