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SubjectRe: [RFC] Rights for hardlinks


On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 01:03:30PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > >
> > > As a general feature, however, is it reasonable to add a S_ITMP flag to
> > > creat(2) to create temp files that do not have associated directory entries?
> >
> > <shudder> Good luck implementing it over NFS. OTOH... Something
> > similar is possible, but I don't think that create() is the right
> > interface for that. BTW, most of the times you really need not that, but
> > anonymous mmap...
>
> Well, hopefully you won't mount /tmp over nfs.
Exactly. That's why I think that it's unsuitable for create() -
it's way too fs-specific.



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