Re: [Fish-users] Meaning of message when exiting fish-shell with background jobs running

2013-09-19 Thread Martin Bähr
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:27:14AM +0530, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: If I start a program in the background mode (like ./prog ) and exit the shell (Ctrl+D), I see the following message: There are stopped jobs. A second attempt to exit will enforce their termination. If I exit again,

Re: [Fish-users] Meaning of message when exiting fish-shell with background jobs running

2013-09-19 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
i can confirm the behavior. Thanks! i believe the message is in error though. because the job in the background is not actually stopped. there should be a different message instead or fish should just exit. I think fish should just exit, same as bash. I'll open an issue for it and fix

Re: [Fish-users] Meaning of message when exiting fish-shell with background jobs running

2013-09-19 Thread Stestagg
This has come up before a couple of times, and is addressed (to some extent) with https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/111 which seems to make the message only appear for jobs that are actually stopped (not just backgrounded) The defence (IIRC) for leaving this in was that most

Re: [Fish-users] Meaning of message when exiting fish-shell with background jobs running

2013-09-19 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
Oops, I think I reported this problem on an older version (2.0.0) which I have installed from the Ubuntu repo's. From the comments of that iossue, it looks like it's been fixed. Will try a source build and see. Sorry about the noise. Regards, -mandeep On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:10 PM,

Re: [Fish-users] Meaning of message when exiting fish-shell with background jobs running

2013-09-19 Thread Martin Baehr
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 09:40:39AM +0100, Stestagg wrote: The defence (IIRC) for leaving this in was that most processes (even some GUI ones) get pretty upset if their controlling terminal (standard in/standard out) go away on them while they're running. This can lead to some strange errors

[Fish-users] Meaning of message when exiting fish-shell with background jobs running

2013-09-18 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
If I start a program in the background mode (like ./prog ) and exit the shell (Ctrl+D), I see the following message: There are stopped jobs. A second attempt to exit will enforce their termination. If I exit again, immediately, it'll quit the shell. However, the above message made me think that