Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles

[konsolebox]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:28 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yeah, and also perhaps lazy initialization is better. Using load-time
means it doesn't matter if /dev/fd gets fixed later through
initialization of udev, etc.

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konsolebox