From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:18:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: tmpfile in DJGPP
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> I don't think there *is* a reliable way of doing this, especially when
> you consider parent/child processes.  Consider a parent that has a
> file open, and it spawns a child that deletes the file.  We can't trap
> that.

True enough. Perhaps we should stick to considering how to handle properly-
written programs that make use of temporary files like Bash.