Re: Design question(s), re: why use of tmp-files or named-pipes(/dev/fd/N) instead of plain pipes?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 04:01:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> The /proc/self/fd/ directory is a kernel construct.  It does not have
> normal file system semantics.

> And really what would be a sane purpose in being able to remove files
> from it?  What would that do?  Would that make any sense at all?  I
> think it wouldn't make any sense.

Well, it *could* conceivably act like close().  But that's a bit
off topic here.