Re: Coprocess terminated, pipe closed before I read the data out

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/13/16 1:13 AM, George wrote:

> Users can work around this by duplicating the file descriptor:
> $ exec {fd_that_wont_vanish_on_me}<&${coproc[0]}-
> But it kind of negates the benefit of having coproc accept a name for
> the fd array if you just wind up having to re-bind it anyway. And the
> command could still fail if it's not run immediately after launching
> the coproc.
> 
> Thus, I think coproc shouldn't close its file descriptors or erase its
> environment variables.

This an interesting suggestion.  I will look at it for a future version.
You have to be careful with writing to a pipe where the reader has gone
away, though, since that will generate SIGPIPE.

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