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Comment by jamespwilliams

> Now, listen. I wish I could continue here and end with “… and this is why ZSH does it that way!”

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/47c7bc9b1493c7374f076b... has a comment about this behaviour, but no justification. I think it's just an optimization to save a little bit of time by not forking, and to avoid having the zsh process hanging around taking resources for no reason.

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