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> iow, things get trickier once I need more than one input one one output. :) you can pass as many FDs to a child as you want, 0/1/2 is just a convention
by blibble 6y ago
> iow, things get trickier once I need more than one input one one output. :)
you can pass as many FDs to a child as you want, 0/1/2 is just a convention
- remexre 6y agoAt that point you're writing something for /usr/libexec, not /usr/bin though. (i.e., at that point it becomes sufficiently inconvenient to use from the shell that no user-facing program would do so.)
- JdeBP 6y agoThat's pretty much false on every point. * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/331104/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/331104/5132