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> I don't see a "duplicate writer". The shell and cat both have the file open for writing. > % sh longrunningprogram.sh > /tmp/stuff & > % rm /tmp/stuff > /tmp/stuff: file is used by longrunningprogram.sh [pid 134] That leads to temp files NOT getting deleted when they should. > What I was saying is that the "two-step" deletion (unlink, reclaim) is > only marginally useful for creating temporary files. It's incredibly useful. The fact that you don't have to wait for a file to be closed before you can delete it makes all kinds of things that are a total pain in the neck on other platforms (upgrades, for example) Just Work makes the very idea of getting rid of it utterly hateful. > So the mechanism involved shouldn't get in the way when I do other > things. The only time it gets in the way is in the rarest of cases, when you have a long running program holding open a huge file and you can't kill it, *and* you made the mistake of deleting it because you were in a hurry to free space.There's stuff above here
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