dce@sony.com (David Elliott) (10/20/89)
Once again, this showed up when using bash with C news inews. The final "posting" of the article is done in the background, using the construct ( commands ) & Using sh from 4.3BSD, this construct causes no output other than that from the commands. WIth bash, the line <pid> is also printed, making news posting annoying. I don't want to redirect the output of the subshell, since that could result in lost error messages. For the time being, I think I've reproduced the behavior of the other shells by changing execute_cmd.c around line 213 to say if (asynchronous) { if (interactive) { describe_pid(pid); } } else { ... } -- David Elliott dce@sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce