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SubjectRe: rm-ing files with open file descriptors
FromXavier Bestel <>
Date19 Jan 2002 11:57:22 +0100
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 03:29, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <a2afsg$73g$2@ncc1701.cistron.net>
> By author:    Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > Well no. new_fd will refer to a completely new, empty file
> > which has no relation to the old file at all.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> This *might* work:
> 
> link("/proc/self/fd/40", newpath);
> 

Mmh, in this case /proc/self/fd/40 would be a symlink to nothing ...



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