Re: Piping capability communication, data vs. descriptor capability strengths

Trey Boudreau <trey-gaUk1npE+QlWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> > I've never done that - normally when I set up one pipe between a pair
> > of processes I can set up two.  You'd rarely pass a descriptor to a
> > program you call directly and I don't think there's any shell pipeline
> > syntax to do so.
> >
> "call directly" usually means fork/exec, in which case the child
> inherits all of your existing file descriptors so you don't need to send
> them.

That's exactly what I mean.