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Re: multios and unnecessary processes
- X-seq: zsh-workers 20663
- From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: multios and unnecessary processes
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:53:25 +0000
- In-reply-to: <20050110094918.GA4432@sc>
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- References: <20050109164753.GA4246@sc> <1050109203218.ZM22780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20050110094918.GA4432@sc>
On Jan 10, 9:49am, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
} Subject: Re: multios and unnecessary processes
}
} > I don't know offhand why multios would behave differently when
} > the shell is interactive.
} [...]
}
} That's because of the -g option to lsof (process group $$, and
} lsof is run in a different process group in interactive mode),
Ah, I should have thought of that.
} > The right way to write multios-independent code is to wrap things in
} > curly braces, e.g.: { lsof -ag $$ -d0-2,10-15 >&2 } >&2
}
} Thanks for the
}
} { { cmd 2>&1 >&3 3>&-; } | cmd2 3>&-; } 3>&-
}
} ~$ zsh -c '{ { lsof -ag $$ -d 0-2,10-15 2>&1 >&3 3>&-; } | tr a b 3>&-; } 3>&1'
} But that's still one more process compared to:
}
} ~$ zsh -o nomultios -c '{ lsof -ag $$ -d 0-2,10-15 2>&1 >&3 3>&- | tr a b 3>&-; } 3>&1'
If the number of processes spawned is important, you have to know when
to use curly braces and when to force a subshell with parens. Curly
braces imply that the parent zsh sticks around and waits, whereas a
subshell with parens can simply do an exec.
zsh -fc '{ ( lsof -ag $$ -d 0-2,10-15 2>&1 >&3 3>&-; ) | tr a b 3>&-; } 3>&1'
COMMAND PID PGRP USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
tr 26811 26811 schaefer 0r FIFO 0,0 72995 pipe
tr 26811 26811 schaefer 1u CHR 136,7 9 /dev/pts/7
tr 26811 26811 schaefer 2u CHR 136,7 9 /dev/pts/7
lsof 26822 26811 schaefer 0u CHR 136,7 9 /dev/pts/7
lsof 26822 26811 schaefer 1u CHR 136,7 9 /dev/pts/7
lsof 26822 26811 schaefer 2w FIFO 0,0 72995 pipe
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