Re: waiting for process substitutions

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/8/24 3:27 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> writes:
> > Some scripts use something like this:
> > ...
> >      exec > >(command ...) ...
>
> I've used that construction quite a few times myself.  I'm not
> requesting that the resulting process be waitable, but certainly
> whatever the maintainers design should take into account that this is an
> important construction for practical purposes.

This isn't going to change; you could already wait for that pid, since
it sets $!.

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