From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27872 invoked from network); 7 May 1998 09:43:07 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 May 1998 09:43:07 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA10754; Thu, 7 May 1998 05:34:11 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 05:34:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Main Message-Id: <199805070934.KAA02038@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: zsh vs. ksh coproc redirection semantics To: schaefer@brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 10:34:11 +0100 (BST) Cc: zefram@tao.co.uk, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <980507022638.ZM16894@candle.brasslantern.com> from "Bart Schaefer" at May 7, 98 02:26:38 am X-Loop: zefram@tao.co.uk X-Phase: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (85% of Full) X-Stardate: [-30]1116.99 X-US-Congress: moronic fuckers X-Headers: OTT X-Mouse: +++ ????? +++ Out Of Cheese Error. Redo From Start. X-Parrot: no, it's only resting. X-Personality: INTJ X-email-is-not-HTML: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"MHvrQ.0.Rd2.70OKr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1525 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Bart Schaefer wrote: >I'd take a poll first (and see if you can get PF to answer). One aspect >of the current zsh behavior is that you can leave the same coproc running >all day and feed different stuff through it from time to time, which IIRC >was actually discussed in a long-ago introduction-to-zsh document that >Paul once distributed. That is an issue. Maybe there's reason enough for an option to flip the behaviour of >&p. (We could add >&p- and >&p+ which aren't affected by options.) >With respect to that, I suggest simply making <&999 >&999 legal syntax >when a particular option is set. That's already legal. It's 999>&1 that's the problem. I think an option is a good solution. -zefram