Re: Odd behavior using MULTIOS

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 11 November 2020 at 17:11 Clinton Bunch <cdbunch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Another thing I noticed is that MULTIOS doesn't appear to work with exec
> 
> i.e.
> 
> exec 3>/tmp/test1 3>/tmp/test2
> 
> causes the script to hang.
> 
> I'm not sure why.  Am I just being dense today?

That sounds like a real bug.  The implementation is going to be a little
different for this case, indeed we effectively get a coprocess so anyone
fixing it may have their work cut out, but I'm not aware of any actual
expectation that it doesn't work, and certainly not that it hangs.

pws