From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10879 invoked from network); 4 Oct 1999 16:11:10 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Oct 1999 16:11:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 608 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 1999 16:10:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2657 Received: (qmail 601 invoked from network); 4 Oct 1999 16:10:22 -0000 Message-Id: <199910041610.MAA20728@betelgeuse.ccs.neu.edu> To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: coproc tutorial (Re: questions) From: Jay Sekora Organization: Northeastern University CCS Systems Group Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 12:10:10 -0400 Sender: jay@ccs.neu.edu It seems a little bit non-orthoganal that you can only have one coprocess. (And I think that probably defeats some of the potential value of coprocesses, which otherwise would let multiple background pipelines communicate with each other in arbitrarily complex ways. Has anybody thought about the possibility of adding support for multiple coprocesses to some misty future version of zsh? Or am I missing the point of supporting a coprocess? (Entirely plausible, since I've never used them.) -j.