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Still needs to spawn a temporary process but it can be killed early:

  true | sleep infinity &
  STDINPID="$!"
  exec {mypipe}<"/proc/$STDINPID/fd/0" # hijack FD
  TMPPIPE="/proc/$$/fd/${mypipe}"
  disown "$STDINPID" # suppress killed message on stderr
  kill -9 "$STDINPID" # clean up process now already
  echo hello > "$TMPPIPE"
  echo write more > "$TMPPIPE"
  cat "$TMPPIPE"
  echo write again > "$TMPPIPE"
  cat "$TMPPIPE"

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Since now, multiple concurrent connections will work after my patch. (Need to add subshell) i will need to consider using fd as output cache. Instead of temporary files.

This here is a simple echo server that uses tr to uppercase:

  exec {checkfd}>/dev/null
  CHECKFDPATH="/proc/$$/fd/${checkfd}"
  (while [ -e "$CHECKFDPATH" ]; do sleep 1; done) > >(true) &
  STDINPID="$!"
  WRITER="/proc/$STDINPID/fd/1"
  
  while IFS= read -r LINE; do
    # only echo lines if we didn't close the connection yet
    if [ -e "$CHECKFDPATH" ]; then
      echo "$LINE" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' > "$WRITER"
      if [ "$LINE" = "bye" ]; then
        exec {checkfd}<&-
      fi
    else
      echo "received while closed: $LINE"
    fi
  done < <(nc -q 1 -l 8080 < "$WRITER")
  if [ -e "$CHECKFDPATH" ]; then
    # close checkfd to close writer pipe
    exec {checkfd}<&-
  fi

This variant here works a bit different:

  exec {checkfd}>/dev/null
  CHECKFDPATH="/proc/$$/fd/${checkfd}"
  (while [ -e "$CHECKFDPATH" ]; do sleep 1; done) > >(true) &
  STDINPID="$!"
  disown "$STDINPID"
  READER="/proc/$STDINPID/fd/1"
  
  { while IFS= read -r LINE; do
    echo "$LINE" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
    if [ "$LINE" = "bye" ]; then
      echo exiting > /dev/stderr
      break
    fi
  done < "$READER" ; kill -9 "$STDINPID" 2>/dev/null || true ; } | { nc -q 1 -l 8080 > "$READER" ; kill -9 "$STDINPID" 2>/dev/null || true ; }
  exec {checkfd}<&-

No need of tr here in your example.

The fd will only be used to stor it temporary since, we first need to sent headers, and the headers need to be sent before the bofy. The server base os working fine now with accept and a patch request os already sent to bash. So probaböy on the next release accept will be full usable.

Seems "sleep 60" is safer and still good enough unless the system is completely overloaded.

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