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From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
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Subject: Re: Async processes started in functions not reliably started
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Chet Ramey wrote in <e4abf389-e9f4-66eb-a6eb-ad3ea82f01c0@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
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