Re: execcmd() reordering

["Barton E. Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 30,  8:00pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
} Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering
}
} > 6) globbing is expanded before the fork.  Other than getting the
} > prompt back an iota later when running background commands, I don't
} > see this is a big deal.  One thing which seems to be a plus is that
} > failures to match are now handled synchronously for background
} > commands:
} 
} Also it makes debugging much easier.  Now prefork is really a historic
} name.  There used to be prefork and postfork and a lot of substitutions had
} been done in the later.

Hmm; Is this going to cause a problem with stuff like:

zsh% (sleep 1 ; touch brandnewfile;) & (sleep 3; echo brand*;) &

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