Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 2002 02:57:53 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper licence issues |
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Come on Pavel, in order to make this happen, you have to > > a) run the installer as root > b) know the next pid which will be allocated > c) put the symlink in /tmp/installer$pid > > and do all before that pid gets used. Have you actually be able to > do that? I'd like to see how you did so without knowing exactly when > root was going to install the package and without filling up /tmp with > 64,000 symlinks.
Or just sit and do getdents() until installer* shows up and then create data*...
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