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From: Rory Mulvaney <rory1@umbc.edu>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: coproc problem when input closed but output open
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:17:19 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1103171605160.356@MyComp.rgm-web.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <110316075735.ZM19183@torch.brasslantern.com>

Thanks.

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> You still have "cat <&6 &" running in the background.  That has a copy of
> the coproc's stdin (fd5) open, because it inherited all the descriptors
> of the parent shell and fd5 is not specially closed the way the "p"
> descriptor is.  You can use
> 
>   cat <&6 5>&- &
> 
> to be sure cat doesn't inherit fd5.
> 
> It might be clearer if you restructure the code to be:
> 
>   coproc wcFunc
>   wcf=$!
> 
>   # copy output of coproc to stdout
>   cat <&p &
> 
>   # copy the write and read fd's for the coproc
>   exec 5>&p 6<&p
>   exec 6<&-
> 
>   # start another null coproc to get a new target for the p fd
>   coproc exit
> 
> Then you don't need to fiddle with fd5 when starting the cat.
> 


      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-17 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-15 19:04 Rory Mulvaney
2011-03-16 14:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-03-17 21:17   ` Rory Mulvaney [this message]

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