if you want to fork your function call then you do it explicitly with $(my_function). I'm aware that people are always discovering things for the first time bu

if you want to fork your function call then you do it explicitly with $(my_function). I'm aware that people are always discovering things for the first time but there is literally decades of thought that has gone into why bash behaves the way it does. and there's a pretty good reason why the bash authors decided not to make function calls fork by default...