Re: Multiple concurrent coprocesses

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/20/21 11:47 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> Multiple concurrent coprocesses simplified one of my scripts a good bit,
> and then I ran into this
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-04/msg00056.html>.
> Considering a decade has passed, I'm assuming the ship has kind of sailed
> on Chet finishing support for it, so I'm curious what's missing. I might
> like to submit my own patch.

It's been there for years; it's just not enabled by default. You have to
build bash with MULTIPLE_COPROCS=1.

Try it with bash-5.1 and let me know. The reason it's not enabled by
default is I haven't been able to test it to a level that satisfies me.

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