File system name space

[Peter da Silva]

Submitted-by: peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)

In article <14137 at cs.utexas.edu> arnold at audiofax.com writes:
> 	nohup join <(prog1) <(prog2) > joined-output-of-progs-1-and-2 &

> and then log out?  The temporary fifos will still be around when the
> program finally exits and the shell won't be around to clean them up.

You'd have to nohup the whole thing in either case because you'll clobber
prog1 and prog2 when you log out. So this is a non-problem.
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