Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] None
Date: Saturday, 21 Nov 2020, 08:04:39

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > If we have "echo no | cat | wc &", do all three stages get backgrounded or
    > just the wc? It looks like only wc gets backgrounded from the staff
    > solution, but based on the grammar given, that doesn't make sense to me.

As you can see from

  % /c/cs323/Hwk5/bashLT
  (1)$ true | false &
  Backgrounded: 391534
  (2)$ false | true &
  Backgrounded: 391544
  Completed: 391534 (1)
  (3)$ true
  Completed: 391544 (1)

your conjecture as to which stages are backgrounded is
incorrect.  The entire pipeline is backgrounded.

--Stan-