Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:58:56 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Rights for hardlinks |
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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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