On 12/18/24 4:56 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
(That would be an issue if we had used eval:eval 'command ... $$ ...' & now we backgrounded the eval, which then in the background process parses the shell syntax and does all the expanding. Now $$ is the PID of the background process, not that of the shell which launched it.)
No, that's not sufficient to reset $$. This is why $BASHPID exists.
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