Re: is there a way to save stdout and stderr to two bash variables?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/12/20 1:52 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> You have to turn that memory into a file descriptor. There are a few ways
>> to do that: a temp file, a pipe, and mmap-style file mapping (which
>> requires a file and file descriptor anyway). The devel branch uses pipes
>> if the here document or here string is smaller than the pipe size,
> 
> So on Linux, if a string is less than 65,536 byte, pipe is used
> instead of a tempfile?

Pretty much, but the actual pipe capacity is computed at build time. Also,
since Linux processes can reduce the pipe capacity, there's a run-time
check to ensure that the expanded document is shorter than the current
capacity. Look at redir.c:here_document_to_fd().


>> and
>> a temp file otherwise.
> 
> Is the tempfile location affected by environment variables like TMPDIR?

Yes. Look at lib/sh/tmpfile.c.


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