| From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors | Date | 18 Jan 2002 18:29:36 -0800 |
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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);
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