Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

[Daniel Hartwig <mandyke@gmail.com>]

On 17 March 2013 19:56, Serafeim Zanikolas <sez@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 02:14:50PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>> The data can be passed through an open fd, similar to dpkg --status-fd
>> argument.  Then there are no issues due to filesystems global
>> namespace and it removes the fs as an unrequired middle-man.
>
> Sure, that'd be an improvement. Would you make apt pass the fd number to
> apt-listbugs in the command line?

or just using a well known env. variable that will also work with
substituation in the command line.