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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/55346: /bin/sh eats memory and CPU infinitely
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Eugene Grosbein wrote:

> > The general problem you're complaining about (here and earlier) is
> > that /bin/sh only checks for the termination of backgrounded
> > children when it displays a prompt, and of course it doesn't do
> > that in the middle of a while loop.  I don't know what the various
> > standards have to say about this, but the behavior is probably
> > just a bug.
>
> Yes it is. Both bash and zsh do not behave so.

try 'set -b'.  The man page says its unimplmented, but its worth a spin.
That or feel free to implement it :)

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