Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

[Brian Somers]

> The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge
> of "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3).
[.....]
> I would argue that the programs and the scripts that call them are
> already broken, but hey...

So (just to add fuel to the mass opposition), do this without 
temporary files:

  count=$(program | tee /dev/stderr | wc -l)
  exit $count

But then, you also said:

> At the same time I would really love if we implemented "|.*" to mean
> "do an popen(3)" instead.

so I guess this could result in

  count=$(program |. cat | wc -l)
  exit $count

(substitute correct "|.*" syntax - whatever that is).

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