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From: | Eric Blake |
Subject: | bug#6900: mktemp: want option to make a fifo |
Date: | Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:40:00 -0600 |
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On 08/23/2010 09:22 AM, John Reiser wrote:
mktemp: Please add an option which creates a fifo instead of a file or a directory. "--fifo" seems appropriate, although the abbreviation "-f" might be confused as a request for an ordinary file; and "-p" as in "--pipe" is already taken for "prefix".
Thanks for the report. However, I'm inclined to mark this bug as a duplicate of 6330, for the reasons already documented in this long thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-06/msg00013.html -- Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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