On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:59 am, "John Myers"
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> On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said:
> > Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers:
> >> It would keep the connection to the master open, and would also have
> >> a consistent PID (unlike a shell script, which, AFAIK, may not).
> >
> > A shell script itself has a consistent PID. However, any command
> > called within a shell script is assigned a new PID.
>
> That's not entirely true. Subshells are not executed in the same process
> as the script.
Right, but a subshell *is* another command. It can be just as easily run
from a prompt.
> It won't
> work as variables are substituted by the original shell. Try this
> instead: bash -c '$(echo $(echo $(echo $(echo $(echo $(read))))))'
> suspending it, looking in ps, and counting how many shells you now have
> running. (the bash -c part is so that you _can_ suspend it)
Or, look at a deeply nested recursive make run by emerge in a bash inside
su - from bash in an xterm in kde. >:)
init-kdeinit-xterm-bash-su-bash-emerge-ebuild-make-make-make-make-sh-gcc
+as
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