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Re: process substitution and wait()


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: process substitution and wait()
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 14:03:22 -0400
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On 4/12/19 4:28 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> None of the other bourne-derived shells that i have tried have a builtin
> wait that waits on child processes that they didn't directly create.
> It's odd that bash 5.0 does this.  I don't have any objection to the
> wait builtin waiting on coprocesses or on process substitutions that it
> knows about.

It's an easy change. See the attachment.

I agree that the negative side effects outweigh the requests to have the
shell `fully clean up after itself'.

-- 
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                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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