Date:	Tue, 30 May 2000 11:12:36 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: tmpfile in DJGPP
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Mark E. wrote:

> I came up with a way, and I use it with Bash 2.04 to provide a function that 
> essentially marks a file handle as 'remove-on-close'. I then use this 
> function to implement a pipe() replacement. This all works, but it also 
> requires changes to dup and dup2 to handle FSEXTs.

Using FSEXT is a possibility, but I'm not sure it's a good way for a 
library feature (as opposed to an application-level code).  As discussed
here on several opportunities, FSEXT needs some work to make it suitable 
for internal use by libc itself.

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