Bash monitor mode remains enabled if disabled in .bashrc

Bash monitor mode remains enabled if disabled in .bashrc

[Michel LaBarre]

Playing with set -m/+m and shopt -s lastpipe, in an interactive bash shell,
I came across a situation 
which is minor unless  it has broader implications for others that I do not
know about.

Specifically if "set +m" is present in  .bashrc, it looks like job control
(monitor mode) is off 
in an interactive shell (as per "echo $-") but it is actually on.

I ran into this with "shopt -s lastpipe" behaviour with and without job
control.
I can also reproduce it with "sleep 25&" then "fg" will fail with "no job
control".

If I "set +m" within the interactive shell rather than, or in addition to,
.bashrc, both the 
flags ($-) and behaviour (lastpipe and fg) reflect job control being off.

I include only an example with lastpipe.

FYI - from bash reference for shopt:
lastpipe If set, and job control is not active, the shell runs the last
command
	of a pipeline not executed in the background in the current shell
	environment.

My .bashrc includes "shopt -s lastpipe" and "set +m".  
My objective was to produce the same conditions as within a script for
debugging a messy statement at a command line
and I had no need for job control while doing this and I would sometimes
forget to disable monitor mode after a new bash.
If somebody trying to debug some bash statements and is unaware that a
second "set +m" is required, they
might be confused for a bit.  (An option to make an interactive shell behave
the same as a non-interactive shell
might facilitate such debugging.)

C:\mybin>bash
$ echo "$-"                       # no "m" meaning monitor mode is off i.e.
no job control...
hiBHs
$ echo abc | read zot     # zot is therefore in a sub-process hence value
not available in this process
$ echo $zot

$ set +m                
$ echo "$-"                        # still no m but behaviour is
different...
hiBHs
$ echo abc | read zot    # read zot now running in this process so value is
available
$ echo $zot
abc
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)

By the way, the "s" set option ($- above) is not defined in the bash
reference manual that I have and is not accepted 
by the "set" built into bash so I don't know how it gets set.  (i.e."set -s
s" or "set +s s" both fail with "invalid option".)

Michel LaBarre





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Re: Bash monitor mode remains enabled if disabled in .bashrc

[cyg Simple]

On 8/30/2017 7:26 PM, Michel LaBarre wrote:
> Playing with set -m/+m and shopt -s lastpipe, in an interactive bash shell,
> I came across a situation 
> which is minor unless  it has broader implications for others that I do not
> know about.
> 
> Specifically if "set +m" is present in  .bashrc, it looks like job control
> (monitor mode) is off 
> in an interactive shell (as per "echo $-") but it is actually on.
> 
> I ran into this with "shopt -s lastpipe" behaviour with and without job
> control.
> I can also reproduce it with "sleep 25&" then "fg" will fail with "no job
> control".
> 
> If I "set +m" within the interactive shell rather than, or in addition to,
> .bashrc, both the 
> flags ($-) and behaviour (lastpipe and fg) reflect job control being off.
> 

Are you sure that .bashrc is being sourced?  The initial start of an
interactive shell doesn't read .bashrc by default.  It reads
.bash_profile when starting interactive mode.  Now most likely your
.bash_profile contains lines to check the existence of .bashrc and
source it but you need to check.

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Re: Bash monitor mode remains enabled if disabled in .bashrc

[cyg Simple]

Keep responses to the list and not the individual responders.

Forwarded on your behalf.

On 8/31/2017 10:32 AM, Michel LaBarre wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Quick answer (repeated interleaved below):
>   - my .bash_profile does indeed source .bashrc
>   - I added an echo to .bashrc to be doubly  sure - it displays as expected
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
>> Behalf Of cyg Simple
>> Sent: August-31-17 8:31 AM
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: Bash monitor mode remains enabled if disabled in .bashrc
>>
>> On 8/30/2017 7:26 PM, Michel LaBarre wrote:
>>> Playing with set -m/+m and shopt -s lastpipe, in an interactive bash shell,
>>> I came across a situation
>>> which is minor unless  it has broader implications for others that I do not
>>> know about.
>>>
>>> Specifically if "set +m" is present in  .bashrc, it looks like job control
>>> (monitor mode) is off
>>> in an interactive shell (as per "echo $-") but it is actually on.
>>>
>>> I ran into this with "shopt -s lastpipe" behaviour with and without job
>>> control.
>>> I can also reproduce it with "sleep 25&" then "fg" will fail with "no job
>>> control".
>>>
>>> If I "set +m" within the interactive shell rather than, or in addition to,
>>> .bashrc, both the
>>> flags ($-) and behaviour (lastpipe and fg) reflect job control being off.
>>>
>>
>> Are you sure that .bashrc is being sourced?  The initial start of an
>> interactive shell doesn't read .bashrc by default.  It reads
>> bash_profile when starting interactive mode.  Now most likely your
>> bash_profile contains lines to check the existence of .bashrc and
>> source it but you need to check.
>>
> My .bash_profile does indeed source .bashrc
> I added an echo to .bashrc to be doubly  sure - it displays as expected> --
> 

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