>> What's wrong with this?
> 
> The wrong thing is that it waits for three seconds.
> In this construct:
> 
> producer | consumer
> 
> when producer closes its stdout, consumer will see EOF
> at once when it reads its stdin, even if producer
> does not terminate. In
> 
> consumer <<(producer)
> 
> construct, this is not the case. Not because it is documented
> to work that way, but only because of the implementation.
> For example, alternate implementation with named pipes in
> e.g. /tmp will not have this peculiarity (but will have other
> problems).
> 

Hi,
so far i know the thread started as : how can i circumvent
the read | while subshell problem ?
We found 3 to 5 solutions (something like that) and what problem
exactly is solved now by added the <<() feature ?

perhaps adding something like "advanced ASH scripting in Busybox"
is a more easy extension that adding new features ?

re,
 wh
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