From a8f736b4cf8d186af4aea6f48ae7a5335d9ad8bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:55:48 +0100 Subject: Users/18033: Documentation for exit and ERR_EXIT. Notes about interaction with asynchronous jobs such as process substitution and multios. --- Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo') diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo b/Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo index 3baf77f20..d9395010a 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/jobs.yo @@ -115,3 +115,18 @@ The shell itself always ignores the tt(QUIT) signal. Otherwise, signals have the values inherited by the shell from its parent (but see the tt(TRAP)var(NAL) special functions in noderef(Functions)). + +cindex(exiting shell, and asynchronous jobs) +cindex(asynchronous jobs, and exiting shell) +cindex(jobs, asynchronous, and exiting shell) +Certain jobs are run asynchronously by the shell other than those +explicitly put into the background; even in cases where the shell +would usually wait for such jobs, an explicit tt(exit) command +or exit due to the option tt(ERR_EXIT) will cause the shell to +exit without waiting. Examples of such asynchronous jobs are +process substitution, see +ifzman(the section PROCESS SUBSTITUTION in the zmanref(zshexpn) manual page)\ +ifnzman(noderef(Process Substitution)), and the handler processes for +multios, see +ifzman(the section MULTIOS in the zmanref(zshmisc) manual page)\ +ifnzman(the section Multios in noderef(Redirection)). -- cgit 1.4.1