Re: Functions that start Jobs

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Jun, Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Because no other shell can do this:

>   % f() { sleep 10; echo foo }
>   % f
>   ^Z
>   zsh: 4022 suspended  f
>   % fg
>   [1]  + continued  f
>   [ time passes... ]
>   foo

I have 2 questions:

1) Is the function executed in the current shell? I don't understand
what happens exactly. What happens if Ctrl-Z is typed while a builtin
is being executed?

2) I tried this example (with 100 instead of 10, to have more time),
and after I typed fg, the sleep ends immediately (i.e., no time
passes). I have the same behaviour on two machines under Linux
(Linux/x86 and Linux/ppc). Is this normal?

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