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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: kill the LHS command of a pipe once the RHS command terminates
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 03:24:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190629012433.GA23526@zira.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190628184134.btrejxp7jyoo6wz6@chaz.gmail.com>

On 2019-06-28 19:41:34 +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> So here with zsh, you can do:
> 
> zmodload zsh/system
> 
> page-and-kill-cmd() {
>   (echo $sysparams[pid]; "$@") | (
>     IFS= read -r pid
>     ${PAGER:-less}
>     kill -s PIPE $pid
>   )
> }

This is not OK.

zira% page-and-kill-cmd eval 'seq 100'
page-and-kill-cmd:kill:4: kill 24157 failed: no such process

Thus if the left-hand-side process has terminated, this tries to
kill a random process!

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-29  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190628110430.GA13790__36317.6205357135$1561719956$gmane$org@zira.vinc17.org>
2019-06-28 18:41 ` Stephane Chazelas
2019-06-29  1:24   ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2019-06-29 15:30     ` Stephane Chazelas
2019-07-06 23:49       ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-07-29 23:08         ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-07-29 23:15           ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-07-29 23:42             ` Bart Schaefer
2019-07-30  0:40               ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-06-28 11:04 Vincent Lefevre
2019-06-28 11:38 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-06-29 16:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-07-06 23:55   ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-07-07  4:54     ` Bart Schaefer
2019-07-09 10:08       ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-07-09 10:54         ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-07-29 15:23 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-07-29 15:54   ` Bart Schaefer
2019-07-29 20:48     ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-07-30  0:00       ` Bart Schaefer
2019-07-30  0:17         ` Vincent Lefevre

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