From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Carl Edquist <edquist@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu, Martin D Kealey <martin@kurahaupo.gen.nz>,
Zachary Santer <zsanter@gmail.com>, bug-bash <bug-bash@gnu.org>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Examples of concurrent coproc usage?
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:20:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bbfa18b9-4c28-46e7-833b-6861535b8a64@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfd1b580-147d-b42d-27ed-fb96621a080c@cs.wisc.edu>
On 4/15/24 1:01 PM, Carl Edquist wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024, Chet Ramey 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.
>
> Thanks for mentioning this example. As you understand, this model use case
> does not require closing the coproc fds when finished, because they will be
> closed implicitly when the shell exits. (As bcalc itself admits.)
>
> And if the coproc is left open for the lifetime of the shell, the alternate
> behavior of deferring the coproc deallocation (until both coproc fds are
> closed) would not require anything extra from the user.
>
> The bcalc example does close both coproc fds though - both at the end, and
> whenever it resets. And so in this example (which as you say, was the
> original intent), the user is already explicitly closing both coproc fds
> explicitly; so the alternate deferring behavior would not require anything
> extra from the user here either.
>
> ...
>
> Yet another point brought to light by the bcalc example relates to the
> coproc pid variable. The reset() function first closes the coproc pipe
> fds, then sleeps for a second to give the BC coproc some time to finish.
>
> An alternative might be to 'wait' for the coproc to finish (likely faster
> than sleeping for a second).
If the coproc has some problem and doesn't exit immediately, `wait' without
options will hang. That's why I opted for the sleep/kill-as-insurance
combo.
(And before you ask why I didn't use `wait -n', I wrote bcalc in 30 minutes
after someone asked me a question about doing floating point math with awk
in a shell script, and it worked.)
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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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
2024-04-15 18:55 ` Chet Ramey
2024-04-15 17:01 ` Carl Edquist
2024-04-17 14:20 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
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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