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Re: coprocess suggestions


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: coprocess suggestions
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:33:52 -0500
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Pierre Gaston wrote:
> I have a couple of suggestions about coprocesses.
> If I understood correctly how coproc works, I think that
> instead of :
> coproc [NAME] command [redirections]
> 
> the documentation would be a little clearer with something like:
> 
> coproc simple-command [redirections]
> coproc NAME compound-command [redirections]

I agree.  I will make it clearer that NAME cannot be used if the
coproc command is a simple command, to avoid confusion with the
first word of the command.

> The other suggestions is to change the index of the descriptor array,
> I find much more natural to think about NAME[0] as the descriptor
> number connected to the standard input (0) of the coproc NAME and NAME[1]
> as the fd number connceted to the standard output (1) of the coproc NAME
> rather than the opposite.
> (Maybe you have another point of view on this)

It's a shell-centric implementation.  You read from the first descriptor
and write to the second, just like a pipe, so the shell reads from NAME[0]
and writes to NAME[1] to communicate with the coprocess.  The coproc
doesn't have access to NAME at all.

> Also coproc is not documented via help.

Good catch, thanks.

Chet

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