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From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Frozen command substitution
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:02:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+fKQcgcFKsBFHLY@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+dioiiAoWXaSGqw@localhost>

On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 10:41:07AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> I have two long running scripts that do complex interaction with
> the web browser, say "foo" which calls the subordinate script
> "bar".  The browser crashes once in a while and is restarted
> automatically by some other script.  Sometimes when this happens,
> foo freezes in a call of bar and won't wake up anymore when bar
> terminates:

> 		R="$(bar some arguments)"  <------- hangs in this line

Apparingly this does not happen if the line is rewritten to

> 		bar some arguments | read R

(bar produces exactly one line of output.)

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

--

Dominik Vogt


  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-11 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-11  9:41 Dominik Vogt
2023-02-11 17:02 ` Dominik Vogt [this message]
2023-02-11 17:36   ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-11 20:28     ` Dominik Vogt

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