bug#6330: Feature request: mktemp creates named pipes (original) (raw)

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From: Sebastien Andre
Subject: bug#6330: Feature request: mktemp creates named pipes
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:08:34 +0200

Hello guys!

When needing a temporary named pipe in shell scripts, I've often been writing the following function:

mktempfifo() { local path=$(mktemp -t) rm "$path" mkfifo -m 0600 "$path" echo "$path" }

I was wondering if anybody would be interested in having an option -p --pipe (or -f --fifo since -p is deprecated) to create temporary named pipes?

Example: $ file $(mktemp -tp) /tmp/tmp.24665457: fifo (named pipe)

PS: I can try to provide a patch if my bug is accepted

Thanks, Sebastien