pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 29e1d9acca a background job that prints nothing looks like a hung one ...

Officer shows a live panel per background job carrying that job's output, and the user watches it. A
command that writes nothing until it finishes leaves that panel reading "Nothing written yet." for the
whole run, which is exactly what a hung job looks like.

Written after doing it twice in one session: plugin installs driven from a script printed nothing for
two minutes, and the owner asked whether I was stuck. Both times the work was fine.

So: verbose flags on, echo around each step when the tool has none, per-item output in a loop, and the
result on the last line — that is the line still on screen when the panel stops. Plus the buffering
trap, because a program that prints steadily still shows nothing through a pipe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-21 02:54:42 +00:00

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a background job that prints nothing looks like a hung one

2026-08-21 02:54:42 +00:00