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mktemp: want option to make a fifo

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Message #8 received at 6900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: John Reiser <jreiser <at> bitwagon.com>
Cc: 6900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6900: mktemp: want option to make a fifo
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:40:00 -0600

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

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