Re: 5.0 regression: Script stuck when waiting in trap

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/4/19 4:34 PM, mwnx wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation. In view of the change you describe,
> there is another behaviour that I think might qualify as a bug. I'll
> give you my actual use case first.
> 
> I simply want to make sure all processes running inside a given
> subshell are killed on exit. To that means, I set up the following
> trap in the shell (and potentially, its subshells and so on):
> 
>     trap 'kill $(jobs -p) &>/dev/null || true; wait' EXIT
> 
> This was working fine in bash 4.x, despite `jobs -p` not returning
> the process ID of process substitutions. But now that `wait` (with
> no arguments) waits for process substitutions in addition to
> "ordinary" foreground and background processes, the situation is
> asymmetric, leading to my subshells freezing when killed while a
> process substitution is running.

Not quite. `wait' without arguments waits for the last process
substitution, and the pid of that process is available in $! for the
cases you care about. If you are sure that your script hasn't started
any asynchronous processes since the last process substitution, you
can use $! directly. Otherwise, you can capture it into a variable
and use it in the `kill' command.

You should also ensure that you're using bash-5.0 with patch 4 applied,
since that is relevant to this issue.

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