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Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 11:28:21 -0400
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On 4/9/19 11:25 AM, konsolebox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:28 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/9/19 10:10 AM, konsolebox wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:19 PM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just like that one time L. Walsh tried to write a bash boot script that
>>>> used <() to populate an array, and it failed because she was running
>>>> it too early in the boot sequence, and /dev/fd/ wasn't available yet.
>>>
>>> @Chet, Isn't bash supposed to use named pipes alternatively, and
>>> dynamically?
>>
>> No. It's a build-time decision, and /dev/fd is preferred.
> 
> Why not make it load-time at least?  

Maybe someday, but it's extremely low priority.

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                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/



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