Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 07:29:33 -0500 (EST) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors |
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On 19 Jan 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 13:16, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > > 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); > > > > cat /proc/<id>/fd/<nr> > whatever > > actually works. > > Once it's unliked ? I doubt it.
Egads... It certainly works, unlinked or not. Please learn the basics of Unix filesystem semantics.
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