Re: so-called pipe files (sh-np-*) do not get deleted when processes close.

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/17/21 11:52 AM, Michael Felt wrote:
> OK - this process on github has not gone exactly as I intended - merged 
> with master - while I wanted to update, ie., merge with branch 5.0.18. So, 
> the link may not be accurate.

This is not correct. Process substitution is a word expansion that results
in a pathname. You can't just remove the pathname after the child opens it.
How will other processes that want to communicate with the process
substitution use it?

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