forcemerge 6900 6330 tags 6900 notabug close 6900 thanks Eric Blake wrote: > 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
I've just merged them and closed both. It's clear that the proposed change is neithehr required nor justified.