On 8/5/19 8:05 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Would be nice to have some shell support for signalling the parent > that the child is now functional, a pipe(2) is much easier than > going through temporary files, but of course not a bash bug.
You could roll your own using a named pipe, but that's functionally no different from using a temp file. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/