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  Re: Async processes started in functions not reliably started Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-08-05 09:00 -0400

#15296 — Re: Async processes started in functions not reliably started

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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