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
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