Re: Loops and pipes

Bart Schaefer <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:57:49 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 3:12=E2=80=AFPM Mark J. Reed <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>
>     read -E < <(echo $x; false)
>
> Bash introduced a feature in 4.4 whereby process substitution places the =
child process's PID into $!

I would think that's not too hard to do.  IIRC process substitutions
have been getting (hidden) job table entries for a while?