Re: How to make a temp fifo?

[Eric Blake]

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

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