In computer science, a coprocess is a process that explicitly yields control to other processes or the operating system.

In Unix, a coprocess is a process that sends its output solely to the exact single process from which it solely received input.

Bash, BETA and ksh have language constructs for coprocesses.

See also


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.