Origin: http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2014/msg01250.html Author: Bart Schaefer Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/759870 Description: Add a sleep call which should prevent a race condition in coproc Index: zsh/Test/A05execution.ztst =================================================================== --- zsh.orig/Test/A05execution.ztst 2015-08-30 22:03:54.257198175 +0200 +++ zsh/Test/A05execution.ztst 2015-08-30 22:03:54.257198175 +0200 @@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ print -u $ZTST_fd 'This test takes 5 seconds to fail...' { printf "%d\n" {1..20000} } 2>/dev/null | ( read -e ) hang(){ printf "%d\n" {2..20000} | cat }; hang 2>/dev/null | ( read -e ) + sleep 1 ;: avoid coproc exit race condition print -p done read -et 6 -p 0:Bug regression: piping a shell construct to an external process may hang