On Aug 31 2025, Maria wrote:
> When I redirect the output of a command that sleeps into a process
> substitution with a process that finishes immediately (like "echo" or
> a process that doesn't exist), after the first sleep, Bash will crash
> with exit code 141.
This is not a crash, it is normal behaviour in presence of a signal.
You can replace the shell command with any program that produces enough
output, you will get exactly the same behaviour.
$ yes > >(:); echo $?
141
$ yes | :; echo ${PIPESTATUS[*]}
141 0
(141 is 128 + SIGPIPE.)
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