When I said I could not see any good reason to do what seemed to being done I was refering to the external redirect and internal unlinking of the redirect file. I like the IO::File inplementation for temp files myself:

require IO::File; 
$fh = new IO::File->new_tmpfile
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cheers

tachyon

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