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Does every program which accepts filenames also accept file descriptors? I can definitely see the use of having a name to pass around.

• nisse72 13y ago
  On Linux at least (not sure about OpenBSD), every open file has a name somewhere in /proc, so you could pass that.
  • masklinn 13y ago
    Which defeats having a flag for an "invisible" temp file, since it'll still be visible (and accessible) in /proc.