Re: 5.3-alpha: the `jobs' builtin prints foreground dead jobs with function substitutions

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/3/24 10:36 AM, Oğuz wrote:
> On Friday, May 3, 2024, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu 
> <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Which is more confusing?
>
>
> The latter, it doesn't say what was killed. The former looks different from 
> what `jobs' prints and is more informative so it would be nice to have in 
> an interactive shell. Not sure how people would react if their scripts 
> started printing that though, take more people's opinions on that please.

We're only talking about interactive shells here. Non-interactive shells
have printed something like this, but including the pid, for forever:

./x1: line 2: 65124 Killed: 9               ( kill -9 $BASHPID )

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