Re: PATCH: coprocess descriptor and error messages

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:04:42 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This seems somehow wrong to me ... starting from "zsh -f":
> 
> torch% print -p ; echo $?
> print: bad file number: -1
> 1
> torch% read -p ; echo $?
> 1
> 
> Seems to me that both commands should either fail silently, or print a
> more specific error.  Patch below does the former.  (Line numbers may
> be off.)  I won't commit until I see commentary.

The question is whether it's useful to be able to test whether the
coprocess is open at the same time as attempting to read or write.  If so,
doing it silently is reasonable.  Otherwise it might be less mysterious to
print "coprocess not open", or something like that, in both cases.

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