On 4/19/16 11:03 AM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:
> > - if it expands to a legal identifier create the coproc
>
> This isn't necessary; there's no reason to restrict a coproc name to
> something stricter than the set of valid executable names. I suppose
> I could see restricting it to the same set of valid names as shell
> functions.
>
>
> ok, but I thought along these lines: if the name is not a valid
> identifier, how are you going to refer by this name to the array with the
> descriptors? but maybe checking legal_identifier is too much.
That's a really good point. We can let people do unwise things (creating
coprocs with weird names) and not let them pollute the shell's namespace
at the same time.
Chet
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