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From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To: jon@FreeBSD.org
Cc: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org,
	cracauer@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/24591: jobs command differs in interactive vs. non-interactive /bin/sh
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[ CC'ing Martin Cracauer...]

On Sun, 02-Sep-2001 at 16:20:09 -0700, jon@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: jobs command differs in interactive vs. non-interactive /bin/sh
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: jon
> State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 2 16:16:45 PDT 2001
> State-Changed-Why: 
> If you want a shell that behaves the same way as an interactive shell,
> start sh with the -i flag.

Thanks for the explanation.

> 
> The reason this does not work in non-interactive mode is because the command
> string is not stored unless the shell is an interactive root shell.
> See jobs.c line 678:
> 	if (iflag && rootshell && n)
> 		ps->cmd = commandtext(n);
> 

Hmm, so I have to ask myself why it needs the iflag to store
the commandtext...

	-Andre

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