diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils/fork.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils/fork.rb
index defe1fa799..5504a576a8 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils/fork.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils/fork.rb
@@ -3,42 +3,42 @@ require "socket"
 
 module Utils
   def self.safe_fork(&block)
-    socket_path = "#{Dir.mktmpdir("homebrew", HOMEBREW_TEMP)}/socket"
-    server = UNIXServer.new(socket_path)
-    ENV["HOMEBREW_ERROR_PIPE"] = socket_path
-    read, write = IO.pipe
+    Dir.mktmpdir("homebrew", HOMEBREW_TEMP) do |tmpdir|
+      UNIXServer.open("#{tmpdir}/socket") do |server|
+        read, write = IO.pipe
 
-    pid = fork do
-      begin
-        server.close
-        read.close
-        write.fcntl(Fcntl::F_SETFD, Fcntl::FD_CLOEXEC)
-        yield
-      rescue Exception => e
-        Marshal.dump(e, write)
-        write.close
-        exit! 1
+        pid = fork do
+          ENV["HOMEBREW_ERROR_PIPE"] = server.path
+
+          begin
+            server.close
+            read.close
+            write.fcntl(Fcntl::F_SETFD, Fcntl::FD_CLOEXEC)
+            yield
+          rescue Exception => e
+            Marshal.dump(e, write)
+            write.close
+            exit! 1
+          end
+        end
+
+        ignore_interrupts(:quietly) do # the child will receive the interrupt and marshal it back
+          begin
+            socket = server.accept_nonblock
+          rescue Errno::EAGAIN, Errno::EWOULDBLOCK, Errno::ECONNABORTED, Errno::EPROTO, Errno::EINTR
+            retry unless Process.waitpid(pid, Process::WNOHANG)
+          else
+            socket.send_io(write)
+          end
+          write.close
+          data = read.read
+          read.close
+          Process.wait(pid) unless socket.nil?
+          raise Marshal.load(data) unless data.nil? or data.empty?
+          raise Interrupt if $?.exitstatus == 130
+          raise "Suspicious failure" unless $?.success?
+        end
       end
     end
-
-    ignore_interrupts(:quietly) do # the child will receive the interrupt and marshal it back
-      begin
-        socket = server.accept_nonblock
-      rescue Errno::EAGAIN, Errno::EWOULDBLOCK, Errno::ECONNABORTED, Errno::EPROTO, Errno::EINTR
-        retry unless Process.waitpid(pid, Process::WNOHANG)
-      else
-        socket.send_io(write)
-      end
-      write.close
-      data = read.read
-      read.close
-      Process.wait(pid) unless socket.nil?
-      raise Marshal.load(data) unless data.nil? or data.empty?
-      raise Interrupt if $?.exitstatus == 130
-      raise "Suspicious failure" unless $?.success?
-    end
-  ensure
-    server.close
-    FileUtils.rm_r File.dirname(socket_path)
   end
 end