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Re: only one coprocess?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: only one coprocess? |
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Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:43:49 -0500 |
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Pierre Gaston wrote:
> in the manpage:
> BUGS
> There may be only one active coprocess at a time.
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> Is this still valid?
> it seems that bash issues a warning, but let you use more than one coprocess.
Bash allows it, but you will find that the shell more or less ignores
the `previous' coprocesses. The basic infrastructure is there to
support more than one, but I'm waiting to gauge the demand for multiple
simultaneous coprocesses before doing the rest of the work.
Chet
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