Re: bug in bash

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mai 12 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Ah... I assumed bk was an existing file.
>
> hobbit:~$ cat <(wc -l) <.bashrc
> wc: 'standard input': Input/output error
> 0
> hobbit:~$ 

Even then there can be a race when the foreground command finishes fast
enough that bash switches the terminal process group back before the
background process starts reading from the terminal (won't happen in
this example since the cat command blocks on reading the process
substitution file).

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