Re: Command hangs when using process substitution

[Andreas Schwab]

On Nov 18 2023, Daniel Barrett via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell 
wrote:

> If it's helpful, here's another interesting piece of the puzzle: the
> "xsel -i" command (which also copies stdin to the X primary selection,
> like "xclip -i" does) works fine in the original pipeline, without
> needing the redirect to /dev/null:
>
> $ echo foo | tee >(xsel -i) | tr o x
> fxx

That's because xsel is properly daemonizing itself, disconnecting from
its stdin/out/err.

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