I've read your post briefly and saw that you need to terminate the background process. I recall that I was doing it in configure-wrapper that I once wrote and that I used jobtexts. I do recall that it does contain entry for coproc, so you could examine it in a INT trap and send a signal to the coproc writing process. On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 16:14, Pier Paolo Grassi wrote: > I did again the search in the manual and now I found it, maybe I mistyped > the first time > where do you suggest I try to print this array? > > Pier Paolo Grassi > > > Il giorno gio 19 gen 2023 alle ore 17:10 Sebastian Gniazdowski < > sgniazdowski@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> Are you running zsh 3.0? That would only explain lack of following in >> zshall: >> >> jobtexts >> This associative array maps job numbers to the texts of the >> command >> lines that were used to start the jobs. >> >> Handling of the keys of the associative array is as >> described for >> jobdirs above. >> >> >> On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 16:08, Pier Paolo Grassi >> wrote: >> >>> I'm sorry, what is $jobtexts? it seems an empty variable to me and >>> doesn't appear in zshall manual >>> >>> Pier Paolo Grassi >>> >>> >>> Il giorno gio 19 gen 2023 alle ore 17:02 Sebastian Gniazdowski < >>> sgniazdowski@gmail.com> ha scritto: >>> >>>> You could get pid from $jobtexts? >>>> >>>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 15:43, Pier Paolo Grassi >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I realize now the subject doesn't reflect the final version of the >>>>> mail, sorry for that >>>>> >>>>> Pier Paolo Grassi >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Il giorno gio 19 gen 2023 alle ore 16:32 Pier Paolo Grassi < >>>>> pierpaolog@gmail.com> ha scritto: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, I want to populate an array from a long running process, >>>>>> something like: >>>>>> >>>>>> long_running_process | while read line >>>>>> do >>>>>> array+=$line >>>>>> done >>>>>> >>>>>> problem is, since long_running_process does not continually produce >>>>>> output but only some times, when i try to interrupt this pipeline with >>>>>> ctrl-c I have to wait until it produces some output for the process to >>>>>> terminate (because, as I understand it, when it tries to write to the pipe >>>>>> it receives a sigpipe due to it being already closed) >>>>>> >>>>>> I have tried various constructs with trap and even coproc to be able >>>>>> to intercept the ctrl-c and send a sigpipe to the long running process, but >>>>>> to no result. >>>>>> >>>>>> I wonder if someone has some solution to share for this problem, >>>>>> thanks >>>>>> >>>>>> Pier Paolo Grassi >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best regards, >>>> Sebastian Gniazdowski >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Sebastian Gniazdowski >> >> -- Best regards, Sebastian Gniazdowski