Bug 755707

Summary:	app-shells/dash-0.5.11.2: jobs in command substitution doesn't work (as if run in subshell)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nikita Zlobin <cook60020tmp>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nikita Zlobin 2020-11-20 12:41:00 UTC

Manual page jobs(1p) specifies such application use as $(jobs -p),
which seems to be the only way to get job pid somehow reused by saving
in a variable (this page itself also tells it's common to be
implemented as built-in).

It works bash, but not in dash (btw, dash doesn't even document it in own manual).

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2020-11-20 16:14:42 UTC

This seems like an upstream bug, no?

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2020-11-20 18:34:10 UTC

Indeed.