Re: How to deal with errors in <()?

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/8/15 6:05 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:

> Are bash questions no longer on topic here? bash-bug used to be
> the place to discuss bash (before help-bash was created). It maps to the
> gnu.bash.bug newsgroup. I don't think help-bash maps to usenet
> (though you can access it over NNTP on gmane).

I personally don't care which mailing list gets the questions.

> $ bash --norc
> bash-4.3$ echo <(exit 123)
> /dev/fd/63
> bash-4.3$ echo "$!"
> 12142
> bash-4.3$ wait "$!"
> bash: wait: pid 12142 is not a child of this shell
> 
> Having the process substitution pid in $! is not very useful if
> you can't wait for it to retrieve the status.

I agree.  I will look at making that work for the next release of bash.

Chet
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