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In attempting to use GNU parallel, with some bash scripts, I
discovered I had a problem with tempfile collisions due to 
all of the thread having the same PID.

I was able to come up with a workaround, but...

RFE: bash should have a TID varuable that returns the vakue of gettid(2).

If the bash devs are too busy for this like the idea, I could write
the patch.
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