Jonathan Nieder dixit:
>This construct is also handy when one wants to update the current
>environment downstream from some other process.
process |&
while IFS= read -pr line; do
…
done
↑ is the proper ksh idiom for that.
> <( ... ) - runs ... in a subshell in the background, with its
> output connected to a pipe.
Ah, interesting. I would have thought it ran the stuff first,
wrote it to a temporary file and then passed that to the
other process, sort of like a dynamic here document, from
when I first read about it. (Didn’t know >(…) existed.)
>On Linux and similar OSes this is typically implemented using
>/proc/fd. A more portable implementation would use FIFOs.
I don’t know whether this works on all mksh target OSes, but
that can surely be investigated.
>What do you think? Is it worth implementing in mksh?
<(…) is already on the wishlist – if you want to submit a
patch, you’re welcome ;-) it should work on DEC ULTRIX 4.5,
DEC OSF/1 V2.0, Minix 3, Haiku, Cygwin, UWIN, etc. though,
and, if possible, Plan 9. ☺
A side note, I’d like to track upstream feature requests
*not* inside the Debian BTS. We usually use the MirBSD
mailing list for that, although there’s now a Launchpad
project associated with mksh which can be used if desired.
bye,
//mirabilos
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<ch> you introduced a merge commit │<mika> % g rebase -i HEAD^^
<mika> sorry, no idea and rebasing just fscked │<mika> Segmentation
<ch> should have cloned into a clean repo │ fault (core dumped)
<ch> if I rebase that now, it's really ugh │<mika:#grml> wuahhhhhh
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