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authorKaren Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>2019-04-18 15:34:22 +0300
committerKaren Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>2019-04-18 15:34:22 +0300
commit63fe0332e57bb4e7583a75aba3f0af4c678051b4 (patch)
treec5c1140bde53a7252d2058ef06ef3d25d986911b /libbutl
parent8b0fe501e77a1f4032a396b97ad317f09e160ee3 (diff)
Add note on bash coprocess bug
Diffstat (limited to 'libbutl')
-rw-r--r--libbutl/manifest-parser.bash.in4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libbutl/manifest-parser.bash.in b/libbutl/manifest-parser.bash.in
index 2c6158a..b0475c4 100644
--- a/libbutl/manifest-parser.bash.in
+++ b/libbutl/manifest-parser.bash.in
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ function butl_manifest_parser_start () # [<file>]
# https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-12/msg00069.html
# https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-10/msg00027.html
#
+ # Also note that the bash bug (still present in 5.0) prevents running
+ # multiple coprocesses at a time (see the BUGS section of bash(1) man page
+ # for details).
+ #
coproc { butl_parse_manifest; } <&"$butl_manifest_parser_ifd"
exec {butl_manifest_parser_ofd}<&"${COPROC[0]}"
butl_manifest_parser_pid="$COPROC_PID"