feature deprecation (Re: process substitution temp files in cygwin/4.3.9)

["Anthony Heading" <ajrh@xxxxxxxx>]

I'd posted a couple of replies to this which fell victim to spam
filtering. No matter - a shorter reply probably better all round.

Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>>> >> >> ~=> x==(echo hello); ls -l $x
>>>> >> >> ls: cannot access /tmp/zshLYRlmE: No such file or directory
>> > >
>> > > This is as designed, after a subcommand or whatever it is called is
>> > > finished, the temp file is deleted. There's really no actual
>> > > difference between a ; and pressing enter. It used to work sometimes
>> > > in previous versions due to a bug, but it sometimes also crashed.

I recall from many years ago this was discussed as a special-case
feature:  the assignment form did not delete the temporary file.  It's
worked like that for a long time, and I have many scripts which rely on
it.

Anthony