From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:47:10 -0400
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> Somebody was going to come up with a hack where the unlink()/remove()
> was delayed until termination of the program or close()/fclose().

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.