On 8/30/2017 7:26 PM, Michel LaBarre wrote: > Playing with set -m/+m and shopt -s lastpipe, in an interactive bash shell, > I came across a situation > which is minor unless it has broader implications for others that I do not > know about. > > Specifically if "set +m" is present in .bashrc, it looks like job control > (monitor mode) is off > in an interactive shell (as per "echo $-") but it is actually on. > > I ran into this with "shopt -s lastpipe" behaviour with and without job > control. > I can also reproduce it with "sleep 25&" then "fg" will fail with "no job > control". > > If I "set +m" within the interactive shell rather than, or in addition to, > .bashrc, both the > flags ($-) and behaviour (lastpipe and fg) reflect job control being off. >
Are you sure that .bashrc is being sourced? The initial start of an interactive shell doesn't read .bashrc by default. It reads .bash_profile when starting interactive mode. Now most likely your .bash_profile contains lines to check the existence of .bashrc and source it but you need to check. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
