/tmp versus temporary file types

[Arnold Robbins]

Here's my two cents worth (I'm a little behind in my Unix-wizards, if some one
else has beat me to the idea, I apologize).

Why not do something like

	fd = open ("/dev/temp", O_RDWR);
	/* O_CREAT implied by the use of /dev/temp */

The kernel just grabs a fresh inode off whatever device /tmp is mounted on,
or the "temp device" could be a configurable parameter in the same way that
the swap device is. Then flink() or whatever ought to work properly as well.

In other words, /dev/null is the null device, /dev/swap the swap device, so
why not a /dev/temp for temporary files?
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