Re: (read -r var) vs <(read -r var) behavior

[Pierre Gaston]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

On 5/16/15 1:11 PM, marzevd@gmail.com wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>         from interactive shell running cat < <(read -r var) prints:
>               bash: read: read error: 0: Input/output error
>
>         on the other hand:
>                 (read -r var)   reads chars from terminal stdin
>
>
> Repeat-By:
>          cat < <(read var)

I'm not sure what the question is here.  The two constructs are totally
different in effect and implementation.  The error comes because the
process substitution is run asynchronously, in the same process group as
the calling shell (though exactly which pgrp doesn't matter), and the
`cat' process runs in a different process group and `owns' the terminal.

In the second (subshell) example, none of these things is true.

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

The question really is (I discussed this with him on IRC) why can you do:

$ cat <(read var </dev/tty;echo $var)
blah
blah

but not:

$ cat < <(read var </dev/tty;echo $var)
bash: read: read error: 0: Input/output error