Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors

[Remi Turk]

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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:50:24AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> There is no way to recreate a file with a nlink count of 0,
> well that is until someone adds flink(fd, newpath) to the kernel.
Which I actually posted a patch for in 2.4.0-test1 time :)

% ll -i old
32619 -rw-r--r--   1 remi     users          14 Jul 31 15:44 old
% exec 5<old
% rm old
% ~/src/flink/flink 5 new
% ll -i new
32619 -rw-r--r--   1 remi     users          14 Jul 31 15:44 new

The more interesting part - open(O_ANONYMOUS) or something like
that looked much harder to do. (IOW, I gave up ;) )

Happy hacking

	Remi

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