tcsh being dodgy, or pipe code ishoos?

[Tim Kientzle]

Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev wrote:
> Juli Mallett wrote:
> 
>>Anyone with insight into this?
>>
>>(jmallett at big-lizard:~)39% ( echo 1 ; ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% echo + % ) )
>>1
>>+ 2
>>+ 3
>>(jmallett at big-lizard:~)40% ( echo 1 ; ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% echo + % ) ) | cat
>>1
>>+ +2
>>3
> 
> last cat is not necessary...
> And it's more weird than that:
> 
>>( echo 1 ; ( ( echo 2 ; echo 3 ) | xargs -I% echo -- + % ) )
> 
> 1
> -- --+  +2 
> 3
> 


Hmmm... This looks like xargs isn't waiting for the subcommand
to exit.  This looks like 'echo -- + 2' and 'echo -- + 3' are
running concurrently.

Tim