Re: Can't wait for process substitution redirected for a subshell

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/24/18 4:46 PM, Geir Hauge wrote:
> Waiting on a process substitution that is used in redirection for a
> command grouping works, but not when using a subshell in place of that
> command grouping:
> 
>     $ TIMEFORMAT=%R
>     $ time bash -c '{ :; } 2> >(sleep 2); wait "$!"'
>     2.013
>     $ time bash -c '(:) 2> >(sleep 2); wait "$!"'
>     bash: line 0: wait: `': not a pid or valid job spec
>     0.008
> 
> I'd expect those two cases to behave the same way.
> 
> It looks like the redirection is done after the subshell is forked, so
> adding the wait inside the subshell actually works:

Yes, expansion and redirections are performed in a subshell when the shell
executes a subshell command. Bash has always behaved like this, and I don't
foresee changing it.

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