Chet Ramey wrote in <e4abf389-e9f4-66eb-a6eb-ad3ea82f0...@case.edu>: |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.
Thanks. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)