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From: Zachary Santer <zsanter@gmail.com>
To: chet.ramey@case.edu
Cc: Carl Edquist <edquist@cs.wisc.edu>,
	Martin D Kealey <martin@kurahaupo.gen.nz>,
	 bug-bash <bug-bash@gnu.org>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Examples of concurrent coproc usage?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:43:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABkLJUJ9o9KasisZFXSAV2JFc12TW2QGRxupskqfWg9PcWw=KQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32bd9e76-24bc-4206-aa8a-8bcc817228b1@case.edu>

On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 4:10 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
> The original intent was to allow the shell to drive a long-running process
> that ran more-or-less in parallel with it. Look at examples/scripts/bcalc
> for an example of that kind of use.

$ ./bcalc
equation: -12
./bcalc: line 94: history: -1: invalid option
history: usage: history [-c] [-d offset] [n] or history -anrw
[filename] or history -ps arg [arg...]
-12
equation: exit

diff --git a/examples/scripts/bcalc b/examples/scripts/bcalc
index bc7e2b40..826eca4f 100644
--- a/examples/scripts/bcalc
+++ b/examples/scripts/bcalc
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ do
        esac

        # save to the history list
-       history -s "$EQN"
+       history -s -- "$EQN"

        # run it through bc
        calc "$EQN"

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-14 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CABkLJULa8c0zr1BkzWLTpAxHBcpb15Xms0-Q2OOVCHiAHuL0uA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <9831afe6-958a-fbd3-9434-05dd0c9b602a@draigBrady.com>
2024-03-10 15:29   ` RFE: enable buffering on null-terminated data Zachary Santer
2024-03-10 20:36     ` Carl Edquist
2024-03-11  3:48       ` Zachary Santer
2024-03-11 11:54         ` Carl Edquist
2024-03-11 15:12           ` Examples of concurrent coproc usage? Zachary Santer
2024-03-14  9:58             ` Carl Edquist
2024-03-17 19:40               ` Zachary Santer
2024-04-01 19:24               ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-01 19:31                 ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-02 16:22                   ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-03 13:54                     ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-03 14:32               ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-03 17:19                 ` Zachary Santer
2024-04-08 15:07                   ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-09  3:44                     ` Zachary Santer
2024-04-13 18:45                       ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-14  2:09                         ` Zachary Santer
2024-04-04 12:52                 ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-04 23:23                   ` Martin D Kealey
2024-04-08 19:50                     ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-09 14:46                       ` Zachary Santer
2024-04-13 18:51                         ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-09 15:58                       ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-13 20:10                         ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-14 18:43                           ` Zachary Santer [this message]
2024-04-15 18:55                             ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-15 17:01                           ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-17 14:20                             ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-20 22:04                               ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-22 16:06                                 ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-27 16:56                                   ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-28 17:50                                     ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-08 16:21                   ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-12 16:49                     ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-16 15:48                       ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-20 23:11                         ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-22 16:12                           ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-17 14:37               ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-20 22:04                 ` Carl Edquist
2024-03-12  3:34           ` RFE: enable buffering on null-terminated data Zachary Santer
2024-03-14 14:15             ` Carl Edquist
2024-03-18  0:12               ` Zachary Santer
2024-03-19  5:24                 ` Kaz Kylheku
2024-03-19 12:50                   ` Zachary Santer
2024-03-20  8:55                     ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-19  0:16                       ` Modify buffering of standard streams via environment variables (not LD_PRELOAD)? Zachary Santer
2024-04-19  9:32                         ` Pádraig Brady
2024-04-19 11:36                           ` Zachary Santer
2024-04-19 12:26                             ` Pádraig Brady
2024-04-19 16:11                               ` Zachary Santer
2024-04-20 16:00                         ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-20 20:00                           ` Zachary Santer
2024-04-20 21:45                             ` Carl Edquist

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