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Re: How to make a temp fifo?


From: Peng Yu
Subject: Re: How to make a temp fifo?
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:41:29 -0600

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 11/11/2011 11:36 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is a way to make a temp fifo. I could use the
>> following to generate a temp fifo. But I'm wondering what is the
>> safest way to generate a temp fifo.
>
> dir=$(mktemp -d)
> file=$dir/file
> mkfifo $file
>
> <do something>
>
> rm -rf $dir

Why a temp directory has to be created?

> This discussion has come up before in the mailing lists; search the
> archives.

Nothing returns when I searched. Did I do something wrong.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=temp+and+fifo&submit=Search!&idxname=coreutils&max=20&result=normal&sort=score

-- 
Regards,
Peng



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