On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 07:43:40PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
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> > What I need to know is whether people think adding this to /bin/sh
> > (most probably including SMALL shells, as this is the kind of thing
> > useful to use in places like installation scripts) is worth the cost.
>
> Personally, I would say "no", but just because I don't think something
> is worth doing doesn't mean it isn't. This is not something I've ever
> wished for; indeed, I can't recall ever having even seen such code.
> (What I would prefer to see is more flexible piping.)
There is one usage of this feature that I see now: shell library, i.e.
chunks of code to 'dot' in a main script. If these chunks open fds, it
would be a nightmare to imagine how to ensure that the fd numbers don't
conflict. With "named fds", one can have namespace protection and can
refer to some_chunk_var without knowing the value (dynamically
allocated) and a main script can then incorporate safely various chunks
in various order.
And this can be useful at installation time (switching to different
chunks from the context).
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