On 12/11/12 2:49 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > So, I'd just call it a documentation flaw. Most likely "coproc" is > indicating whether it successfully created the coprocess (bg job), and > you'll have to use "wait" to fetch its exit status once it becomes > available.
More like an omission. The current documentation doesn't say anything about what the `coproc' command returns. It only talks about what the coprocess -- the asynchronous command -- returns. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/