Re: waiting for process substitutions

[Oğuz]

On Tuesday, August 6, 2024, Zachary Santer <zsanter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How bash is actually used should guide its development.


Correct. No one waits for procsubs in their scripts or on the command line.

In a script, a child process being a job or not makes no difference,
> from the shell programmer's perspective, unless you've got job control
> on for some reason.


That's not true. `jobs' works even if job control is disabled. `kill'
accepts jobspecs and bash expands the `\j' escape sequence in prompt
strings. So it does make a difference.


> Only as much noise as how many procsubs you expand on the command line.
>

And that's too many. Much more than async jobs.


-- 
Oğuz