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mkfifo -f


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: mkfifo -f
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 10:20:46 +0800
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mkfifo could add a -f option, so instead of
"mkfifo: cannot create fifo `g.txt.serial': File exists"
it could go ahead and make it anyway.
True, one could first test(1), but all its brothers and sisters, cp,
ln, rm, have -f, so to not show favoritism...
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