Coprocess
In computer science, a coprocess is a process that explicitly yields control to other processes or the operating system.
In Unix, a coprocess is a process that sends its output solely to the exact single process from which it solely received input.
Bash, BETA, ksh, and Zsh have language constructs for coprocesses.
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