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From: Luigi Tarenga <luigi.tarenga@gmail.com>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: possible bug in job control
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:44:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKkO-EgtZw6EuoBz1ishWc-V7LNOzFO98O7A8T=Rqq42DA_T1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

hi list,
while writing a script to execute parallel ssh command on many host I found
a strange behavior of dash. I can replicate it with a very simple script but
didn't find any documentation about dash or POSIX that can explain it.

tested on centos 6.4 (dash 0.5.5.1) and wih dash compiled from source (0.5.7)
the following script reports error:

#!/bin/dash

sleep 3 &
sleep 3 &
sleep 3 &
sleep 3 &

#/bin/true
jobs -l

wait %1
wait %2
wait %3
wait %4

[vortex@lizard ~]$ ./dash-0.5.7/src/dash test.sh
[4] + 4569 Running
[3] - 4568 Running
[2]   4567 Running
[1]   4566 Running
prova: 14: wait: No such job: %4
[vortex@lizard ~]$ echo $?
2

if you uncomment /bin/true it works or if you add one more job it work again:

#!/bin/dash

sleep 3 &
sleep 3 &
sleep 3 &
sleep 3 &
sleep 3 &

#/bin/true
jobs -l

wait %1
wait %2
wait %3
wait %4
wait %5

[vortex@lizard ~]$ ./dash-0.5.7/src/dash prova
[5] + 4590 Running
[4] - 4589 Running
[3]   4588 Running
[2]   4587 Running
[1]   4586 Running


the script fails with 4 and 8 jobs, works with 1 2 3 5 6 7 9.
jobs -l have no other efffect than printing job list (this is ok).
executing one external binary (like /bin/true) between sleeps and wait
make it works. putting and internal command in backgroup like : &
(so it spawn another subprocess) make it works. using %% in the last
wait make it works.

what do you think? it this a bug?

thanks in advance
Luigi

next             reply	other threads:[~2013-07-29 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-29 21:44 Luigi Tarenga [this message]
2013-07-29 22:47 ` possible bug in job control Harald van Dijk
     [not found]   ` <CAKkO-EiY79gEH+SbvK6kF=1v0h7Q5=ypHGcs+m-yHdMFq-L-7A@mail.gmail.com>
2013-07-30 16:17     ` Harald van Dijk
2013-07-31  7:34       ` Herbert Xu
2013-07-30 16:42   ` Luigi Tarenga
2014-09-26  9:28   ` Herbert Xu

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