Hi, On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Eric Wong wrote: > Writing and reading from a tempfile are very fast for me in Linux, and > probably not much slower than pipes. Sorry, but no. Really no. Pipes have several advantages over temporary files: - The second program can already work on the data before the first finishes. - Most simple temp file handling has security issues. - You need write access. Hth, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html