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.

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