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Subject: RE: bug with for and |&
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:01:24 +0300
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>
> Peter Stephenson wrote:
>
> > The problem is general to cases where a current-shell construct
> on the left
> > of the pipeline contains an external command.  It doesn't matter what's on
> > the right of the pipeline.  The code on the left seems to be executing all
> > right.
> >
> > % exec 3>&2
> > % { ls; print Finished >&3 } |& cat
> > Finished
> >
> > and it hangs in zwaitjobs, waiting for the job to finish, which it never
> > does.  Change `ls' to `print foo' and the problem goes away.
>
> Rats. I still can't reproduce it, neither with (on Linux), nor without
> (on DU) the patch. So I guess there must be some kind of race
> condition somewhere...
>


Sorry for "me too", but neither do I. It works here all right. It may well be
some uninitialized variable.

-andrej