Re: process substitution error handling

[Eli Schwartz]

On 8/6/20 9:15 AM, kfm@plushkava.net wrote:
> You beat me to it. I was just about to suggest wait $! || exit. Indeed,
> I mentioned the same in a recent bug report against wireguard-tools.

So if I understand correctly, you reported the lack of wait $! || exit
in a script, and the script author instead responded by requesting a new
feature in bash that does the same thing, except after a random interval
during another command's execution?

> I concur. The scripts I looked at tended heavily towards error handling
> at a distance and were already subject to one or two amusing errexit
> pitfalls.

lol, I bet we could fix that by adding even more error handling at a
distance.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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