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RE: Loop suspend



>
> Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>
> > What is the current status? Is zsh able to suspend loops containing only
> > builtins?
>
> No. Only if they have at least on external command or are in a pipeline.
>

I had at least one case where

while true; do
/bin/true
done

was not suspended. I suspect, /bin/true simpy exits "too fast" for zsh to
catch it. As usual, I cannot reproduce it now.

-andrej

P.S. you are still using "old" sunsite.auc.dk. I noticed this, because Outlook
is filtering on new sunsite.dk.



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