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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> What Emacs needs is a RAM-based temporary file system.  :-)

Actually, just a few minutes ago I suggested to make call-process be
a file operation.  (The handler would be chosen based on
default-directory.)

With this change, you could build a filename handler that does this.

However, one would still have to pass the data to the external
process somehow.  Hmmm...
-- 
Ambibibentists unite!