| From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:23:57 -0500 |
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On Friday 18 January 2002 04:28 pm, Ken Brownfield wrote: > This is actually a long-standing UNIXism that is pretty heavily relied- > upon -- for example, opening a temporary file then unlinking it before > use "guarantees" that the file will not stick around in case the app > crashes before it can properly close and unlink.
It's fun with named pipes, too. Allows you to use the child's PID as the temp file name really easily...
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