Re: Examples of concurrent coproc usage?

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/2/24 12:22 PM, Carl Edquist wrote:

> > This seems like it would be pretty easy to fix if a coproc closed the fds 
> > corresponding to an existing coproc in the child after the fork
>
> the forked coproc has to close its fds to/from _all_ other existing coprocs 
> (as there can be several).

And there is the issue. Without multi-coproc support, the shell only keeps
track of one coproc at a time, so there's only one set of pipe file
descriptors to close.

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