OT: environment variables, job control

From: Jamie (jamie_at_gnulife.org)
Date: 04/30/04

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       I'm using FreeBSD 4.9. Hopefully this is not too far off-topic.

       My login shell is set to /bin/csh. Why is it that when I:

    % /bin/sh
    $ echo $SHELL

      I get:
    $ /bin/csh

       Also, I noticed that when I invoke sh , and I:

    $ sleep 40

       The sleep process has a different process group ID than the parent
    (shell). I thought by default the bourne shell did not support job
    control. From my understanding, it will support job control if you use the
    -m switch.

         - Jamie

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