"Hannu E K Nevalainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From: Henry S. Thompson
>> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:32 PM
>
>> Fred Kulack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> >> Short summary: a loop with echo and ls does not produce well-ordered
>> >> output
>> >
<snip/>
> FWIW; I can reproduce it. It seems to me that it is some kind of problem
> with bash's use of subshells in loops (synchronizing output). I have no
> knowledge of the internals here, so bear with me.
That sounds plausible, but I too am incompetent to delve much
deeper. . . There's the old issue of process id re-use, perhaps?
Thanks for trying it, and simplifying.
ht
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