Christos Zoulas --> netbsd-help (2006-01-31 16:04:49 +0000):
> In article <20060131154204.GA8318@moray.salmi.ch>,
> Jukka Salmi  <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >after starting a process in the background
> >
> >	$ sleep 30 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
> >
> >and killing it
> >
> >	$ kill $! >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> >the following is printed to the terminal:
> >
> >	[1]   Terminated              sleep 30 >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> >even though I redirected standard output and error to /dev/null... I
> >tried this with both /bin/sh and /bin/ksh on -current and 2.1_STABLE
> >NetBSD systems. The Korn shell even prints the pid when starting the
> >command in the background, e.g.
> >
> >	[1] 6980
> >
> >I guess it's the shell who prints these strings, isn't it? If yes, is
> >there a way to suppress this output?
> >
> >
> >TIA, Jukka
> 
> csh prints, ksh and sh don't.

Hmm, I'm seeing this "... Terminated ..." output with sh, ksh and csh...

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