Improve the & background operator (consistency with bash, richer functionality)#193
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& background operator (consistency with bash, richer functionality)
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Ok, so my comments are in reverse order, lol. First time clicking "Review". Makes more sense if you read the last comment first. |
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Trying to do more async reviews outside of Committee meetings, so that means my review here is not binding by any means. Just giving my (often naive) take.
Right now, I'm okay with $! and the new ProcessId property, but I have concerns about console overlays, as well as the change to --% (which I don't believe can be easily implemented, though I'd love to be proven wrong). I think we should document workarounds (inline in my comments) around the --% scenario.
This is very much appreciated. Even just a non-binding "gut" take from you guys on these is very helpful, so I thank you for that. |
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After some discussion, @PowerShell/powershell-committee feels that most of this proposal is not useful and/or straightforward enough to accept:
We did, however, agree that a At a high-level, we think there's some improvements we could make to the UX of the entire job system (especially using ThreadJobs), but it's not currently a priority for us. |
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