On 4/24/18 4:46 PM, Geir Hauge wrote:
> Waiting on a process substitution that is used in redirection for a
> command grouping works, but not when using a subshell in place of that
> command grouping:
>
> $ TIMEFORMAT=%R
> $ time bash -c '{ :; } 2> >(sleep 2); wait "$!"'
> 2.013
>
POSIX allows assignments preceding special builtins such as ':', 'set',
etc. not only to persist but also to be persistently exported. I think
that exporting behaviour is inherently broken and it's unfortunate that
bash does this in POSIX mode, as it's merely allowed and not actually
mandated,
