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

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/3/24 4:46 PM, Robert Elz wrote:

> What I see (in 5.2, and 5.3 alpha 1) is:
>
> jacaranda$ bash-5.3a1 -c '( kill -9 $BASHPID )'
> bash-5.3a1: line 1: 29765 Killed                  ( kill -9 $BASHPID )
>
> I have no idea what you think that "9" is useful for, IMO it is a
> waste of space, and just confusing (and yes, I know SIGKILL is 9).

It's what macOS returns from strsignal(). Take it up with Apple.

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