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Re: process substitution and wait()
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: process substitution and wait() |
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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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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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