it's actually fairly near way to handling doing temporary disk space, you create file, open it and delete while still having open handle to it. in that way you

it's actually fairly near way to handling doing temporary disk space, you create file, open it and delete while still having open handle to it. in that way you can still use it but without having files in the filesystem. in that way you have less corner cases to carry to cleanup ( like crashes, power interruptions, etc ) mpv actually can utilize this mechanism to cache played media from network locally